Biological classification: |
- kingdom: Plantae
- - phylum: Tracheophyta
- -- class: Liliopsida
- --- order: Poales
- ---- family: Poaceae
- ----- species: Cenchrus ciliaris
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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
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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
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References: | Van Rooyen et al. 2001: 90 |