Genus: Cenchrus

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Last Modified 01/13/2012

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Nomenclature

Cenchrus Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 1049. 1753.

List of Cenchrus Species

References to Cenchrus

  • Boydston, R. A. 1990. Time of emergence and seed production of longspine sandbur (Cenchrus longispinus) and puncturevine (Tribulus terrestris).
  • Cheplick, G. P. 2006. Seed rain, transient seeds banks, and seedling recruitment of annual on a coastal beach. J. Torrey Bot. Soc. 133: 379-392.
  • Cheplick, G. P. 2005. Patterns in the distribution of American beachgrass (Ammophila breviligulata) and the density and reproduction of annual plants on a coastal beach. Plant Ecology 180: 57-67.
  • Cheplick, G. P.; Wickstrom, V. M. 1999. Assessing the potential for competition on a coastal beach and the significance of variable seed mass in Triplasis purpurea. J. Torrey Bot. Soc. 126: 296-306.
  • Donadio, S. et.al. 2009. A preliminary molecular phylogeny of Pennisetum and Cenchrus (Poaceae-Paniceae) based on the trnL-F, rpl16 chloroplast markers. Taxon 58: 392-404.
  • Doust, A. N. et.al. 2007. Congruence, conflict, and polyploidization shown by nuclear and chlorplast markers in the monophyletic "bristle clade" (Paniceae, Panicoideae, Poaceae). Syst. Bot. 32: 531-544.
  • Kellogg, E. A. et.al. 2009. A phylogeny of Setaria (Poaceae, Panicoideae, Paniceae) and related genera based on the chloroplast gene ndhF. Int. J. Plant Sci. 170: 117-131.