Cenchrus

Accepted species 109 Documented here 22 Family Poaceae

Accepted species 109 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone 1,775 documented
Cenchrus setaceus (Forssk.) Morrone 1,446 documented
Cenchrus ciliaris L. 697 documented
Cenchrus purpureus (Schumach.) Morrone 437 documented
Cenchrus echinatus L. 336 documented
Cenchrus caudatus (Schrad.) Kuntze 286 documented
Cenchrus spinifex Cav. 282 documented
Cenchrus alopecuroides (L.) Thunb. 230 documented
Cenchrus longisetus M.C.Johnst. 183 documented
Cenchrus longispinus (Hack.) Fernald 141 documented
Cenchrus setosus Sw. 67 documented
Cenchrus latifolius (Spreng.) Morrone 37 documented
Cenchrus palmeri Vasey 31 documented
Cenchrus tribuloides L. 24 documented
Cenchrus caliculatus Cav. 12 documented
Cenchrus myosuroides Kunth 10 documented
Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone 9 documented
Cenchrus gracillimus Nash 8 documented
Cenchrus pedicellatus (Trin.) Morrone 6 documented
Cenchrus biflorus Roxb. 5 documented
Cenchrus nervosus (Nees) Kuntze 4 documented
Cenchrus orientalis (Rich.) Morrone 4 documented
Cenchrus pennisetiformis Steud. 2 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus multiflorus J.Presl 1 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus pseudotriticoides (A.Camus) Voronts. 1 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus × cupreus (Thorpe) Govaerts 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus × longistylus (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Thulin & S.M.Phillips 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus abyssinicus (Hack.) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus afer (Bory) Veldkamp 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus agrimonoides Trin. 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus annuus (Mez) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus arnhemicus (F.Muell.) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus articularis (Trin.) M.W.Tornab. & W.L.Wagner 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus basedowii (Summerh. & C.E.Hubb.) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus beckeroides (Leeke) ined. 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus brevisetosus (B.K.Simon) B.K.Simon 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus brownii Roem. & Schult. 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus chilensis (É.Desv.) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus complanatus (Nees) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus distachyus (E.Fourn.) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus distichophyllus Griseb. 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus divisus (J.F.Gmel.) Verloove, Govaerts & Buttler 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus domingensis (Spreng. ex Schult.) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus durus (Beal) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus elegans (Hassk.) Veldkamp 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus elymoides F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus exiguus (Mez) ined. 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus flaccidus (Griseb.) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus flexilis (Mez) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus foermeranus (Leeke) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus geniculatus Thunb. 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus glaucifolius (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Rudov 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus gracilescens (Hochst.) Zon 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus henryanus (F.Br.) M.W.Tornab. & W.L.Wagner 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus hohenackeri (Hochst. ex Steud.) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus hordeoides (Lam.) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus intectus (Chase) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus lanatus (Klotzsch) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus laxius (Clayton) Zon 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus ledermannii (Mez) ined. 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus longissimus (S.L.Chen & Y.X.Jin) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus massaicus (Stapf) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus mezianus (Leeke) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus michoacanus H.F.Gut. & Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus mitis Andersson 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus monostigma (Pilg.) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus mutilatus Kuntze 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus nanus (Engl.) ined. 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus nodiflorus (Franch.) Zon 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus nubicus (Hochst.) Zon 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus occidentalis (Chase) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus pauperus (Steud.) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus peruvianus (Trin.) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus petiolaris (Hochst.) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus pilcomayensis (Mez) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus pilosus Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus pirottae (Chiov.) Zon 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus platyacanthus Andersson 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus preslii (Kunth) ined. 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus prieurii (Kunth) Maire 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus procerus (Stapf) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus prolificus (Chase) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus pumilus (Hack.) ined. 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus qianningensis (S.L.Zhong) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus ramosus (Hochst.) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus rigidus (Griseb.) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus riparius (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus robustus R.D.Webster 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus rupestris (Chase) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus sagittatus (Henrard) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus schweinfurthii (Pilg.) Zon 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus setiger Vahl 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus shaanxiensis (S.L.Chen & Y.X.Jin) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus sichuanensis (S.L.Chen & Y.X.Jin) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus sieberianus (Schltdl.) Verloove 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus somalensis Clayton 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus sphacelatus (Nees) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus squamulatus (Fresen.) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus stramineus (Peter) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus tempisquensis (R.W.Pohl) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus thulinii (S.M.Phillips) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus trachyphyllus (Pilg.) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus trisetus (Leeke) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus tristachyus (Kunth) Kuntze 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus uliginosus (Hack.) ined. 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus unisetus (Nees) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus violaceus (Lam.) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus weberbaueri (Mez) Morrone 0 below the evidence gate
Cenchrus yemensis (Deflers) Rudov & Akhani 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.