View source for Cynosurus echinatus

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|accepted_name=Cynosurus echinatus
|accepted_authority=L.
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|common_names=Bristly dogtail
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Cynosurus;Cynosurus 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. Pooideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Poeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cynosurus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cynosurus echinatus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 687
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual; tufted. <b>Culms</b> 9-70 cm, clustered or solitary. <b>Sheaths</b> smooth, glabrous; ligules 2.5-5(10) mm, obtuse, entire; blades 3-13.5(23) cm long, 2.5-14 mm wide, scab¬rous. <b>Panicles</b> 1-4(8) cm long, 0.7-2 cm wide, ovoid to almost globose, unilateral. <b>Spikelets</b> 7-14 mm, subsessile or shortly pedicellate; pedicels to 1.6 mm. <b>Sterile</b> spikelets with 6-18 florets; glumes and lemmas similar, subulate to linear-lanceolate, glabrous, sometimes scabridulous, awned, awns to 8 mm. <b>Fertile</b> spikelets with 1-5 florets, glumes and lemmas dissimilar; glumes 5.5-12 mm long, 0.4-0.9 mm wide, narrowly lanceolate, laterally compressed, hyaline, glabrous, 1-veined, keeled, awned, awns 0.5-2.2 mm; rachilla internodes 0.9-1.3 mm; lemmas 4-7 mm, slightly dorsally compressed, chartaceous or coriaceous, not keeled, lower 1/2 smooth, glabrous, distal 1/2 villous or scabrous, apices hyaline, ciliolate, entire or bidentate, awned, awns 5-18(25) mm; anthers 1-4 mm. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|distribution=Wash.;B.C.;W.Va.;N.J.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;N.Y.;Pa.;Va.;Calif.;Ala.;Ark.;Ga.;Conn.;Md.;Okla.;Ohio;Mo.;Mich.;Mont.;Miss.;Oreg.
|discussion=<p><i>Cynosurus echinatus</i> is native to southern Europe. It is now established in dry, open habitats in North America, South America, and Australia.</p>
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name=Cynosurus echinatus
|authority=L.
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|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Sandy Long
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Wash.;B.C.;W.Va.;N.J.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;N.Y.;Pa.;Va.;Calif.;Ala.;Ark.;Ga.;Conn.;Md.;Okla.;Ohio;Mo.;Mich.;Mont.;Miss.;Oreg.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae
|genus=Cynosurus
|species=Cynosurus echinatus
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