Cenchrus setigerus Vahl, Enum. Pl. Obs. 2: 395 (1806) (syn: Cenchrus bulbifer Hochst. ex Boiss.; Cenchrus ciliaris var. setigerus (Vahl) Maire & Weiller; Cenchrus montanus Nees ex Steud.; Cenchrus quinquevalvis Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.; Cenchrus schimperi Hochst. & Steud.; Cenchrus tripsacoides R.Br.; Cenchrus uniflorus Ehrenb. ex Boiss.; Pennisetum ciliare var. setigerum (Vahl) Leeke; Pennisetum setigerum (Vahl) Wipff; Pennisetum vahlii Kunth);
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Sahara to W. Indo-China and Tanzania: Algeria, Andaman Is., Burkina, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Gulf States, India, Iran, Kenya, Kuwait, Mauritania, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Niger, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Socotra, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen; Introduced into: Brazil North, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, China South-Central, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Caledonia, Texas as per POWO;
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Common name: Birdwood Grass • Rajasthani: भुरतियो Bhurtio
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Perennial, forming clumps from a ± bulbous base; culms 5-80 cm high, geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades 2-20 cm long, 2-7 mm wide. Panicle 2-12 cm long; involucres cup-shaped, 3-7 mm long; inner spines short, flattened, connate for a quarter to half their length to form a cup, glabrous or obscurely puberulous and grooved on the face, occasionally sparsely ciliate on the margins, green to dark purple, antrorsely scaberulous, narrowly triangular at the tip; outer spines few, short, often suppressed, rarely almost as long as the inner. Spikelets 1-3 per burr, 3-5 mm long.
Flowering and fruiting: June-December
Grasslands
(Attributions: Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi as per India Biodiversity Portal)
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Grass identification-2: 3 high res. images.
Habitat: Outer road side
Date- 31july 2022
Cenchrus setigerus
This common grass was shot from district Karnal and also from other places in Haryana, id please…
This is Cenchrus setigerus
A grass seen in Muscat, Oman on 30/12/2011.
Can be Cenchrus sp.
Thanks … for a possible id. Could it be Cenchrus ciliaris?
efi page on Pennisetum ciliare ((syn: (≡) Cenchrus ciliaris L. (basionym))
It is Cenchrus setigerus grass. It is palatable and common in Rajasthan. I attached Two images of Cenchrus setigerus and Cenchrus ciliaris.
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Grass for ID-PC-29.12.2015 : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1)
Please identify the grass here in photos. It is 12cm high and spread as much. The picture was taken on 26.12.2015 at Tuglakabaf, New Delhi.
this one is cenchrus setigerus
Cenchrus setigerus
Submission of Cenchrus setigerus : 4 posts by 2 authors.
Habitat & location: Occasional in dry sandy soils and low hills. Photographed at Nellore rural.
I think last 2 photographs belongs to Cenchrus biflorus
All photographs belong to the same plant; identified with the help of BSI
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References:
POWO Flora of China Flora of Pakistan FOP illustration India Biodiversity Portal Tropical Forages Lucid Central Flowers of India FAO RBG Kew: GrassBase – Cenchrus setigerus Description
