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|accepted_name=Pennisetum ciliare
|accepted_authority=(L.) Link
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|common_names=Buffel grass
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cenchrus ciliaris
|authority=unknown
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Pennisetum;Pennisetum ciliare
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Paniceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pennisetum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Pennisetum ciliare]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 525
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose from a hard, knotty base, with or without rhizomes. <b>Culms</b> 10-150 cm, erect, sometimes branching at the aerial nodes, glabrous, sometimes scabrous beneath the panicle; nodes glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> green or glaucous; sheaths glabrous or pubescent, margins ciliate; ligules 0.5-3 mm, membranous, ciliate; blades 3-50 cm long, 2-13 mm wide, flat, glabrous or pubescent, margins ciliate or glabrous basally. <b>Panicles</b> 2-20 cm long, 4-35 mm wide, fully exerted from the sheaths, erect, green, brown, brown-purple, or dark purple; rachises terete, scabrous. <b>Fascicles</b> 11-37 per cm, disarticulating at maturity; fascicle axes 0.2-1.5 cm, with 1-12 spikelets; outer bristles 16-89, 0.3-11.7 mm, many exceeding the spikelets; inner bristles 7-20, 3.8-13.8 mm, fused to 1/4 of their length, flattened, grooved, ciliate; primary bristles 10.5-23 mm, long-ciliate, noticeably longer than the other bristles. <b>Spikelets</b> 2.5-5.6 mm, sessile, glabrous; lower glumes 1-3 mm, 0-1-veined; upper glumes 1.3-3.4 mm, about 1/2 as long as the spikelet, (0)1-3-veined; lower florets staminate or sterile; lower lemmas 2.5-5.3 mm, 3-7-veined; lower paleas absent or 2.5-5 mm; anthers absent or about 1.4 mm; upper florets not disarticulating at maturity; upper lemmas 2.2-5.4 mm, (3)5(6)-veined, margins glabrous; anthers 1.4-2.7 mm. <b>Caryopses</b> 1.2-1.9 mm long, 0.4-1 mm wide, concealed by the lemma and palea at maturity. <b>2n</b> = 36, 45.</span><!--

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|distribution=Puerto Rico;Okla.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Virgin Islands;Calif.;N.Y.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Ariz.;Fla.;Mo.
|discussion=<p><i>Pennisetum ciliare</i> is native to Africa, western Asia, and India. It now grows throughout the warmer, drier regions of the world, often as a forage crop, and is established in much of the southeastern United States. It is sometimes included in <i>Cenchrus</i>, based solely on the fusion of its bristles.</p>
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name=Pennisetum ciliare
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|authority=(L.) Link
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Cenchrus ciliaris
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Puerto Rico;Okla.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Virgin Islands;Calif.;N.Y.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Ariz.;Fla.;Mo.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Pennisetum
|species=Pennisetum ciliare
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