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Cenchrus echinatus

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Details
Ethnobotanical Use
General Uses
Synonyms
Common Names
Subtypes (subspecies, varieties, subvarieties, forms)
Germination/Propagation
Distribution
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Genome
Scientific Literature
Phytochemical Profile
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Details Top

Internal ID UUID64402f3e71aa9871058631
Scientific name Cenchrus echinatus
Authority L.
First published in Sp. Pl. : 1050 (1753)

Ethnobotanical Use Top

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General Uses Top

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Hay and forage:
Cenchrus echinatus is used as a hay and pasture forage, primarily for cattle and other livestock in tropical and subtropical regions. It is cut at flowering or early seed set and made into baled hay or green-chopped for on-farm use; mechanical harvesting is common. The species establishes quickly on disturbed ground, producing usable yields in the first growing season under suitable rainfall or irrigation. As plants mature, leaves become fibrous and seedheads develop sharp burrs, reducing palatability; therefore, earlier cutting is preferred for fodder quality.

Erosion control and land management:
It is employed for soil stabilization and erosion control on roadsides, abandoned fields, mine spoils, and other disturbed sites, where the fibrous root system and sod-forming habit help reduce runoff and surface erosion. The species is sometimes used in restoration mixtures to quickly cover bare ground; persistence is greatest on light-textured soils with moderate to high rainfall.

Other non-medicinal uses:
Recorded as an experimental plant in ecological and genetic studies (e.g., genomic surveys, population ecology, species-level systematics), but not a standard model organism. No verified commercial, craft, or industrial uses (e.g., grain, fiber, gum, dye, or oil) are documented for Cenchrus echinatus.

Synonyms Top

Scientific name Authority First published in
Cenchrus brevisetus E.Fourn. ex Hemsl. Biol. Cent.-Amer., Bot. 3: 506. 1885 (1885)
Cenchrus cavanillesii Tausch Flora 20: 97 (1837)
Cenchrus crinitus Mez Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 7: 48 (1917)
Cenchrus echinatus var. brevisetus Scribn. Publ. Field Columb. Mus., Bot. Ser. 2: 26 (1900)
Cenchrus echinatus var. glabratus F.Br. Bull. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. 84: 66. 1931
Cenchrus echinatus var. hillebrandianus (Hitchc.) F.Br. Bull. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. 84: 65. 1931
Cenchrus echinatus var. morisonii Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 765 (1891)
Cenchrus echinatus var. pennisetoides F.Br. Bull. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. 84: 66. 1931
Cenchrus hillebrandianus Hitchc. Mem. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Mus. 8: 211 (1922)
Cenchrus insularis Scribn. ex Millsp. Publ. Field Columb. Mus., Bot. Ser. ii. 26.
Cenchrus lechleri Steud. Berberid. Amer. Austral. : 56 (1857)
Cenchrus macrocarpus Ledeb. ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot. , ed. 2, 1: 817 (1840)
Cenchrus pungens Kunth Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: 115 (1816)
Panicastrella muricata Moench Methodus : 206 (1794)
Cenchrus brevisetus E.Fourn. Mexic. Pl. 50. 1886; ex Hemsl., Biol. Cent.-Amer., Bot. 3: 506. 1885.

Common names Top

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Language Common/alternative name
English southern sandbur
English spiny burrgrass, burrgrass, burrweed, southern sandbur, mossman river grass
Czech ostrokvět ježatý
Welsh gwrychwellt pigog
Finnish otaharjasheinä
guc püürüla
Japanese シンクリノイガ
Korean 미국가시풀
nv tłʼoh hosh
pam kutung babi
Portuguese capim-carrapicho
Swedish tagghirs
Thai หญ้าสนกระจับ
Chinese 蒺藜草
Chinese 刺蒺藜草

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Varieties (abbr. var.) Top

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Distribution (via POWO/KEW) Top

Legend for the distribution data:
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- Extinct
- Introduced
- Native
  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya
      • Tanzania
    • Macaronesia
      • Azores
      • Canary Islands
      • Cape Verde
    • Northern Africa
      • Egypt
    • West Tropical Africa
      • Ghana
      • Ivory Coast
      • Nigeria
      • Togo
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Equatorial Guinea
      • Gabon
    • Western Indian Ocean
      • Aldabra
      • Chagos Archipelago
      • Madagascar
      • Mauritius
      • Mozambique Channel Islands
      • Rodrigues
      • Réunion
      • Seychelles
  • Asia-temperate
    • Arabian Peninsula
      • Gulf States
      • Oman
      • Saudi Arabia
    • China
      • China South-central
      • China Southeast
      • Hainan
    • Eastern Asia
      • Japan
      • Nansei-shoto
      • Taiwan
    • Western Asia
      • Lebanon-Syria
      • Palestine
  • Asia-tropical
    • Indian Subcontinent
      • Bangladesh
      • India
      • Sri Lanka
    • Indo-China
      • South China Sea
    • Malesia
      • Borneo
      • Cocos (keeling) Islands
      • Lesser Sunda Islands
      • Malaya
      • Philippines
    • Papuasia
      • New Guinea
      • Solomon Islands
  • Europe
    • Middle Europe
      • Czechoslovakia
    • Southeastern Europe
      • Greece
  • Northern America
    • Mexico
      • Mexican Pacific Islands
      • Mexico Central
      • Mexico Gulf
      • Mexico Northeast
      • Mexico Northwest
      • Mexico Southeast
      • Mexico Southwest
    • North-central U.S.A.
      • Kansas
      • Oklahoma
    • Northeastern U.S.A.
      • Maine
      • Vermont
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • New Mexico
      • Texas
    • Southeastern U.S.A.
      • Alabama
      • Arkansas
      • District Of Columbia
      • Florida
      • Georgia
      • Kentucky
      • Louisiana
      • Maryland
      • Mississippi
      • North Carolina
      • South Carolina
      • Tennessee
      • Virginia
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • Arizona
      • California
      • Nevada
  • Pacific
    • North-central Pacific
      • Hawaii
    • Northwestern Pacific
      • Caroline Islands
      • Marianas
      • Marshall Islands
      • Wake Island
    • South-central Pacific
      • Cook Islands
      • Easter Island
      • Line Islands
      • Marquesas
      • Society Islands
      • Tuamotu
      • Tubuai Islands
    • Southwestern Pacific
      • Fiji
      • Gilbert Islands
      • Nauru
      • New Caledonia
      • Niue
      • Phoenix Islands
      • Samoa
      • Tokelau-manihiki
      • Tonga
      • Tuvalu
      • Vanuatu
      • Wallis-Futuna Islands
  • Southern America
    • Brazil
      • Brazil North
      • Brazil Northeast
      • Brazil South
      • Brazil Southeast
      • Brazil West-central
    • Caribbean
      • Aruba
      • Bahamas
      • Bermuda
      • Cayman Islands
      • Cuba
      • Dominican Republic
      • Haiti
      • Jamaica
      • Leeward Islands
      • Netherlands Antilles
      • Puerto Rico
      • Southwest Caribbean
      • Trinidad-Tobago
      • Turks-caicos Islands
      • Venezuelan Antilles
      • Windward Islands
    • Central America
      • Belize
      • Central American Pacific
      • Costa Rica
      • El Salvador
      • Guatemala
      • Honduras
      • Nicaragua
      • Panamá
    • Northern South America
      • French Guiana
      • Guyana
      • Suriname
      • Venezuela
    • Southern South America
      • Argentina Northeast
      • Argentina Northwest
      • Chile North
      • Chile South
      • Desventurados Islands
      • Paraguay
      • Uruguay
    • Western South America
      • Bolivia
      • Colombia
      • Ecuador
      • Galápagos
      • Peru

Links to other databases Top

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000858591
Florida Plant Atlas 3678
Flora of Alabama 4721
USDA Plants CEEC
Tropicos 25513329
INPN 89480
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:316518-2
The Plant List kew-403909
Open Tree Of Life 1094535
Observations.org 197694
NCBI Taxonomy 173841
NBN Atlas NBNSYS0000014250
Nature Serve 2.155825
IUCN Red List 13506981
IPNI 316518-2
iNaturalist 76205
GBIF 5289739
Freebase /m/047tvz2
EPPO CCHEC
EOL 1114278
Elurikkus 623671
Calflora (Californian flora) 1840
USDA GRIN 9795
Wikipedia Cenchrus_echinatus

Genomes (via NCBI) Top

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Scientific Literature Top

Below are displayed the latest 15 articles published in PMC (PubMed Central®) and other sources (DOI number only)!
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Title Authors Publication Released IDs
Prediction of Body Weight by Using PCA-Supported Gradient Boosting and Random Forest Algorithms in Water Buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis) Reared in South-Eastern Mexico Gomez-Vazquez A, Tırınk C, Cruz-Tamayo AA, Cruz-Hernandez A, Camacho-Pérez E, Okuyucu İC, Şahin HA, Dzib-Cauich DA, Gülboy Ö, Garcia-Herrera RA, Chay-Canul AJ Animals (Basel) 17-Jan-2024
PMCID:PMC10812760
doi:10.3390/ani14020293
PMID:38254463
The Novel Invader Salpichroa origanifolia Modifies the Soil Seed Bank of a Mediterranean Mesophile Forest Arduini I, Alessandrini V Plants (Basel) 13-Jan-2024
PMCID:PMC10821032
doi:10.3390/plants13020226
PMID:38256778
Update of the Xylella spp. host plant database – systematic literature search up to 30 June 2023 Gibin D, Gutierrez Linares A, Fasanelli E, Pasinato L, Delbianco A EFSA J 15-Dec-2023
PMCID:PMC10722330
doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2023.8477
PMID:38107375
Citronella essential oil-based nanoemulsion as a post-emergence natural herbicide Somala N, Laosinwattana C, Chotsaeng N, Teerarak M Sci Rep 27-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10682385
doi:10.1038/s41598-023-48328-6
PMID:38012328
Dense Cover, but Not Allelopathic Potential, of Naturalized Alien Cenchrus echinatus L. Threatens the Native Species in Urban Vegetation Hassan MO, Mohamed HY, Okla MK, Kiani BH, Amro A Plants (Basel) 31-Oct-2023
PMCID:PMC10648999
doi:10.3390/plants12213736
PMID:37960091
Vascular Plant Species Inventory of Mexico’s Revillagigedo National Park: Awareness of Alien Invaders as a Sine Qua Non Prerequisite for Island Conservation Domínguez-Meneses A, Martínez-Gómez JE, Mejía-Saulés T, Acosta-Rosado I, Stadler S Plants (Basel) 30-Sep-2023
PMCID:PMC10575041
doi:10.3390/plants12193455
PMID:37836194
Weed-Hoeing Periods in Cowpea Cultivation under Direct and Conventional Systems de Sousa ER, de Oliveira Fontes L, da Costa Filho JH, Gurgel AL, Fonseca WL, Zuffo AM, Alencar DG, Silva TP, de Jesús Lacerda JJ, Aguilera JG, García JA, Zevallos RN, Morales-Aranibar L, Luna AM, Gonzales HH Plants (Basel) 17-Jul-2023
PMCID:PMC10385808
doi:10.3390/plants12142668
PMID:37514282
Metagenomics reveals the structure of Mastrevirus–host interaction network within an agro-ecosystem Claverie S, Hoareau M, Chéhida SB, Filloux D, Varsani A, Roumagnac P, Martin DP, Lett JM, Lefeuvre P Virus Evol 06-Jul-2023
PMCID:PMC10354507
doi:10.1093/ve/vead043
PMID:37475836
Soil Carbon Stocks and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation of Agriculture in the Brazilian Cerrado—A Review de Carvalho AM, de Jesus DR, de Sousa TR, Ramos ML, de Figueiredo CC, de Oliveira AD, Marchão RL, Ribeiro FP, Dantas RD, Borges LD Plants (Basel) 26-Jun-2023
PMCID:PMC10347215
doi:10.3390/plants12132449
PMID:37447015
Update of the Xylella spp. host plant database – systematic literature search up to 31 December 2022 Gibin D, Pasinato L, Delbianco A EFSA J 13-Jun-2023
PMCID:PMC10262070
doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2023.8061
PMID:37325259
Oxidative stress, free radicals and antioxidants: potential crosstalk in the pathophysiology of human diseases Chaudhary P, Janmeda P, Docea AO, Yeskaliyeva B, Abdull Razis AF, Modu B, Calina D, Sharifi-Rad J Front Chem 10-May-2023
PMCID:PMC10206224
doi:10.3389/fchem.2023.1158198
PMID:37234200
Four Invasive Plant Species in Southwest Saudi Arabia Have Variable Effects on Soil Dynamics Abbas AM, Soliman WS, Alomran MM, Alotaibi NM, Novak SJ Plants (Basel) 08-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10058728
doi:10.3390/plants12061231
PMID:36986920
Pest categorisation of Pantoea ananatis Bragard C, Baptista P, Chatzivassiliou E, Di Serio F, Gonthier P, Jaques Miret JA, Justesen AF, MacLeod A, Magnusson CS, Milonas P, Navas‐Cortes JA, Parnell S, Potting R, Stefani E, Thulke H, Van der Werf W, Civera AV, Yuen J, Zappalà L, Migheli Q, Vloutoglou I, Maiorano A, Streissl F, Reignault PL EFSA J 07-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC9989851
doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2023.7849
PMID:36895574
Evaluation of global Cenchrus germplasm for key nutritional and silage quality traits Singh S, Singh T, Singh KK, Srivastava MK, Das MM, Mahanta SK, Kumar N, Katiyar R, Ghosh PK, Misra AK Front Nutr 02-Feb-2023
PMCID:PMC9932515
doi:10.3389/fnut.2022.1094763
PMID:36817062
Update of the Xylella spp. host plant database – systematic literature search up to 30 June 2022 Delbianco A, Gibin D, Pasinato L, Boscia D, Morelli M EFSA J 09-Jan-2023
PMCID:PMC9827234
doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2023.7726
PMID:36628332

Phytochemical Profile Top

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Name PubChem ID Canonical SMILES MW Found in Proof
> Alkaloids and derivatives / Ergoline and derivatives / Lysergic acids and derivatives / Ergopeptines
(6aS,9R)-N-[(1S,2S,4R,7S)-2-hydroxy-4-methyl-5,8-dioxo-7-propan-2-yl-3-oxa-6,9-diazatricyclo[7.3.0.02,6]dodecan-4-yl]-7-methyl-6,6a,8,9-tetrahydro-4H-indolo[4,3-fg]quinoline-9-carboxamide 6451531 Click to see 533.60 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50071A021
Ergovaline 104843 Click to see 533.60 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50071A021
Ergovalinine 20841588 Click to see 533.60 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50071A021
> Alkaloids and derivatives / Ergoline and derivatives / Lysergic acids and derivatives / Ergopeptines / Ergotamines, dihydroergotamines, and derivatives
Ergotamine 8223 Click to see CC1(C(=O)N2C(C(=O)N3CCCC3C2(O1)O)CC4=CC=CC=C4)NC(=O)C5CN(C6CC7=CNC8=CC=CC(=C78)C6=C5)C 581.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50071A021
> Organic acids and derivatives / Peptidomimetics / Hybrid peptides
(6aR,9S)-N-[(2R,5S,8S,8aS)-8a-hydroxy-2,8-dimethyl-5-(2-methylpropyl)-3,6-dioxo-7,8-dihydro-5H-[1,3]oxazolo[3,2-a]pyrazin-2-yl]-7-methyl-6,6a,8,9-tetrahydro-4H-indolo[4,3-fg]quinoline-9-carboxamide 14753573 Click to see CC1C2(N(C(C(=O)N1)CC(C)C)C(=O)C(O2)(C)NC(=O)C3CN(C4CC5=CNC6=CC=CC(=C56)C4=C3)C)O 521.60 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50071A021
Ergobalansine 14753572 Click to see CC1C2(N(C(C(=O)N1)CC(C)C)C(=O)C(O2)(C)NC(=O)C3CN(C4CC5=CNC6=CC=CC(=C56)C4=C3)C)O 521.60 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50071A021

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