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Cenchrus echinatus var. hillebrandianus (A.S. Hitchc.) F. Br.
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"Annual herbs; culms geniculate, 20-75 cm tall, tufted; nodes glabrous. Leaves 8-35 x 0.4-12 cm, linear-lanceolate, base rounded, apex acuminate, pilose on upper surface, scabrid on margins; sheaths keeled, to 12 cm long; ligule a row of hairs. Panicles spike-like, 4-10 cm long; rachis angular with sharp-edged decurrent wings, puberulous. Spikelets 3-5, 6-7 mm long, enclosed by a deciduous involucre of bristles; involucre to 8 mm long; bristles unequal, outer smaller, retrorsely barbed; lower glume c. 3 mm long, ovate, acute; upper glumes c. 5 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, 3-5 nerved. Lower floret male; upper floret bisexual; first lemma 5 - 6 mm long, ovate-lanceolate; palea c. 6 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, 2-nerved, delicate; second lemma c. 6 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 5-nerved. Stamens 3; filaments 7-8 mm long. Ovary c. 1 mm long, globose; stigma plumose, c. 3 mm long, white. Grain 3-3.5 x 2.5-3 mm, ellipsoid."
The name Cenchrus caliculatus Cavanilles has been misapplied to this species in China. Cenchrus caliculatus is a larger species with culms to 2 m tall and an inflorescence to 24 cm. It is further distinguished by its burrs, which have only a shallow basal cupule. It occurs in Indonesia, Australia, and the S Pacific Islands.
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Neotype for Cenchrus hexaflorus Blanco
Catalog Number: US 904492
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): E. D. Merrill
Year Collected: 1915
Locality: Manila., Luzon, Philippines, Asia-Tropical
- Neotype: Blanco, F. M. 1837. Fl. Filip. 36.
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Type fragment for Cenchrus crinitus Mez
Catalog Number: US 865737A
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): R. A. Philippi
Locality: Pica., Tarapacá, Chile, South America
- Type fragment: Mez, C. C. 1917. Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem. 7: 48.
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Holotype for Cenchrus hillebrandianus Hitchc.
Catalog Number: US 836482
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Card file verified by examination of alleged type specimen
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): A. S. Hitchcock
Year Collected: 1916
Locality: Waikiki., Honolulu, O`ahu, Hawaii, United States, Hawaiian Archipelago, Pacific Islands
- Holotype: Hitchcock, A. S. 1922. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. Bull. 8: 211.
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Type fragment for Cenchrus brevisetus E. Fourn.
Catalog Number: US 978731
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Card file verified by examination of alleged type specimen
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): -. Bourgeau
Locality: Valle de Orizaba., Veracruz, Mexico, North America
- Type fragment: Fournier, E. P. 1886. Mexic. Pl. 2: 50.
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Type fragment for Cenchrus pungens Kunth
Catalog Number: US 865719A
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Card file verified by examination of alleged type specimen
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): A. J. A. Bonpland
Locality: prope Guayaquil, Peru, South America
- Type fragment: Kunth, C. S., et al. 1815. Nova Genera Sp. Pl. 1: 115.
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Along sea coasts
Flowering class: Monocot Habit: Herb Distribution notes: Exotic
Introduced weed.
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