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|accepted_name=Cenchrus echinatus
|accepted_authority=L.
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|common_names=Southern sandbur
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cenchrus echinatus var. hillebrandianus
|authority=unknown
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Cenchrus;Cenchrus echinatus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Paniceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cenchrus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cenchrus echinatus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 531
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual. <b>Culms</b> 20-100 cm, ascending from a geniculate base. <b>Sheaths</b> from shorter than to equaling the internodes, compressed; ligules 0.7-1.7 mm; blades 4-18(35) cm long, 2-10(14.2) mm wide, adaxial surfaces sparsely pilose, hairs papillose-based. <b>Panicles</b> 2.5-12 cm; rachis internodes 2-4 mm; fascicles 5-10 mm long, 3.5-6(6.3) mm wide, imbricate; outer bristles 10-20, terete, the majority no more than 1/2 as long as the inner bristles; inner bristles 2-5 mm long, 0.6-1.5 mm wide, flattened, not grooved, mostly erect, fused for at least 1/2 their length into a globose cupule, sometimes interlocking at maturity, shortly pubescent, often purple at maturity. <b>Spikelets</b> 2-3(4) per fascicle, 4.8-7 mm. <b>Lower</b> glumes 1.3-3.4 mm; upper glumes 3.8-5.7 mm, 3-7-veined; lower lemmas 4.5-6.5 mm; upper florets 4.7-7 mm; anthers 0.8-2.4 mm. <b>Caryopses</b> ovoid, 1.2-3.2 mm long, 1.3-2.2 mm wide. <b>2n</b> = (34), 68.</span><!--

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|distribution=Md.;D.C;Miss.;Puerto Rico;Okla.;Tex.;La.;Virgin Islands;Calif.;Ala.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Ga.;Ariz.;Fla.;N.Mex.
|discussion=<p>Cenchrus echinatus grows in disturbed areas throughout the coastal plain and piedmont of the southern United States, Mexico, Central and South America, and, as an unwelcome introduction, elsewhere.</p>
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name=Cenchrus echinatus
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|authority=L.
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|synonyms=Cenchrus echinatus var. hillebrandianus
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Md.;D.C;Miss.;Puerto Rico;Okla.;Tex.;La.;Virgin Islands;Calif.;Ala.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Ga.;Ariz.;Fla.;N.Mex.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Cenchrus
|species=Cenchrus echinatus
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