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Common name: Fountain Buffel Grass .
Grass for ID: SPC-012: Please help to identify this grass from a house garden in Baroda. This one was flowering when the pictures were taken around three weeks back.
Should be Cenchrus pennisetiformis
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Plant ID SD0401: 5 high res. images. Kindly help with the ID of this grass. Probably a Cenchrus species. But it’s not ciliaris, something else.
Clicked in Sep 2025, Haldeshwar (Barmer)
Cenchrus purpureus (Schumach.) Morrone
Does not look like Cenchrus purpureus to me, any other species likely?
