Species Cenchrus ciliaris L. (Buffelgrass)

Biological classification:
  • kingdom: Plantae
  • - phylum: Tracheophyta
  • -- class: Liliopsida
  • --- order: Poales
  • ---- family: Poaceae
  • ----- species: Cenchrus ciliaris
Characteristics:perennial grass, 1m tall, buffy form, inflorescence is a dense, purple to straw-colored spike, the spikelets are surrounded by wavy bristles
Countries:

AU
Australia
BW
Botswana
ES
Spain
MX
Mexico
US
United States
Ecoregions:

AA1207
Murray-Darling woodlands and mallee
AA1309
Tirari-Sturt stony desert
AT0907
Zambezian flooded grasslands
NA1303
Chihuahuan desert
NT0227
Sierra de la Laguna dry forests
NT1316
Tehuacán Valley matorral
PA1203
Canary Islands dry woodlands and forests
PA1212
Mediterranean acacia-argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets
PA1215
Northeastern Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests
Links:
References:Van Rooyen et al. 2001: 90
Source: http://media.eol.org/data_objects/16064260
Date: 2010-01-28
Place: Orient
Creator: Royal Botanic Garden  Edinburgh
Permission: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License
Comments:   Cenchrus ciliaris L. (Gramineae).  Image of herbarium specimen held at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E).  Specimen barcode number E00365518.  Specimen collected from: Orient.    This is a low resolution version of the image. 
Source: http://media.eol.org/data_objects/1993068
Place: Hawaii, Kahoolawe at Molokini, Maui
Creator: Forest & Kim Starr
Permission: Creative Commons Attribution License
Source: wikimedia
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Source: http://media.eol.org/data_objects/30275511
Creator: Petra Ballings
Permission: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License
Comments: Species: Cenchrus ciliaris L. Date: 2007-12-31 Location: On (sloping) wall of upper dam, Hillside Dams, Bulawayo Habitat: Colonists on dam wall

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