Fabaceae / Papilionaceae

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Poaceae / Gramineae
Cenchrus biflorus Roxb.
(Syn: Cenchrus barbatus Schumach.)
English name: Indian sandbur.
Local name:
Sindhi- Dhaman gah, Bhorut; Urdu-
Dhaman.
Description:
An ascending annual grass, about 5-90 cm high, spikes pale green in flowering,
straw colored in fruiting. The fruiting spikelets become troublesome prickly due to
the stiffening of straight and retrorse barbs.
Flowering Period:
January to April and again September to November.
Habitat:
Grows on wide range of soil and climate, a weed of
cultivated fields, fallow and waste land, open, sandy and
stony grounds, this grass is acceptable to stocks when young,
but it is commonly a very noxious weed, especially in the
plains.
Distribution:
Pakistan, tropicalAfrica, extending throughArabia to India.