Species profile—Cenchrus echinatus (Mossman River grass)
Classification
Plantae (plants) → Equisetopsida (land plants) → Poaceae (grass) → Cenchrus echinatus (Mossman River grass)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Plantae (plants)
- Class
- Equisetopsida (land plants)
- Family
- Poaceae (grass)
- Scientific name
- Cenchrus echinatus L.
- Common name
- Mossman River grass
- WildNet taxon ID
- 15541
- Alternate name(s)
- Seaforth burr
Mossman River burr
burr grass
southern sandburr
sandburr
mossman burrgrass
innocent weed
hedgehog grass
buffel grass - Conservation significant
- No
- Confidential
- No
- Endemicity
- Introduced
- Pest status
- Environmental Weed
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=15541.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
