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  3. ›flowering plants
  4. ›monocots
  5. ›grasses, sedges, cattails, and allies
  6. ›grasses
  7. ›Panicums, Bluestems, Paspalums, and Allies
  8. ›bristle, rosette, and barnyard grasses, and allies
  9. ›Cenchrinae
  10. ›Cenchrus
Indian sandbur
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Indian sandbur

Cenchrus biflorus

Cenchrus biflorus is a species of annual grass in the Poaceae family. Common names include Indian sandbur, Bhurat or Bhurut in India, Haskaneet in Sudan, Aneeti in the Arabic dialect of Mauretania, K 'arangiya in the Hausa language of Nigeria, and Ngibbi in the Kanuri language of Nigeria. In the francophone countries of the Sahel, it is usually referred to as "cram-cram" .

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 147004.