Cenchrus

• Authority

  Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Cenchrus

• Description

  Description - Spikelets 1 to 4 together, subtended and surrounded by a spiny bur formed of adnate sterile branches, the burs subsessile along a common axis, falling with the spikelets and permanently inclosing them ; spikelets acuminate, the first glume sometimes obsolete.

• Common Names

  sandbur