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Cenchrus × cupreus; photograph Татьяна Максимова, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF CC BYТатьяна Максимова, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF

Cenchrus × cupreus (Thorpe) Govaerts

Poaceae

A hybrid: C. elegans × C. setaceus, the parents Kew's World Checklist states for it (WCVP, RBG Kew).

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Cenchrus × cupreus, photograph Татьяна Максимова, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFCenchrus × cupreus, photograph Татьяна Максимова, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFCenchrus × cupreus, photograph Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFCenchrus × cupreus, photograph Bat, CC0, iNaturalist via GBIFCenchrus × cupreus, photograph Bat, CC0, iNaturalist via GBIFCenchrus × cupreus, photograph Татьяна Максимова, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF 13 photographs ›

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived. 7 of the 62 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

No native range: WCVP lists no region where it is native.
Openly licensed records, not tested against the stated range, framed on where they fall.
NativeWCVP lists no region where it is native; the regions it does list are named here. · introduced: Sweden, Jawa, New Guinea, Hawaii, California, Texas, Florida, Mexico Northwest · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“perennial” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo verified native range for this name: WCVP has no entry with native status, and a checklist that only reports presence cannot tell a wild record from a garden one. The map shows 14 openly licensed records of 62 untested against any range; no map marker or climate is derived from them, and no sheet is built from them. 7 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: Татьяна Максимова, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (3); Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF; Bat, CC0, iNaturalist via GBIF (2).

Other Cenchrus 18 in the reference

Cenchrus alopecuroides Cenchrus alopecuroides Black Fountaingrass Photo: CC BY, ValCenchrus americanus Cenchrus americanus Pearl millet Photo: CC BY, Fabrício Mil Homens RiellaCenchrus caudatus Cenchrus caudatus African Fountain Grass Photo: CC BY, Leon PerrieCenchrus ciliaris Cenchrus ciliaris Buffel-grass Photo: CC BY, Matt BergerCenchrus clandestinus Cenchrus clandestinus Kikuyu grass Photo: CC0, author not statedCenchrus echinatus Cenchrus echinatus Southern sandbur Photo: CC BY, zebedeugalinhaCenchrus flaccidus Cenchrus flaccidus Flaccid grass Photo: CC BY-SA, Josep Gesti Cenchrus geniculatus Napier Millet Cenchrus latifolius Cenchrus latifolius Uruguay fountain grass Photo: CC BY, jodepagecorneyCenchrus longisetus Cenchrus longisetus Feathertop Photo: CC BY, PierreCenchrus longispinus Cenchrus longispinus Field sandbur Photo: CC0, author not statedCenchrus orientalis Cenchrus orientalis Oriental fountain grass Photo: CC BY, Astra all 19 ›

Names & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidata

The record

Family
Poaceae
Described by
(Thorpe) Govaerts
Native to
not verified
Records
62 georeferenced · 14 open · range not tested

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry lists no native region, only 8 where it is introduced
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 9 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (8 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 8 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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