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
The Australasian Virtual Herbarium (AVH) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://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.