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Cenchrus biflorus

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Liliopsida
Order:	Cyperales
Family:	Poaceae
Genus:	Cenchrus
Species:	C. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Liliopsida is a Botanical name for the class containing the family Liliaceae (or Lily Family Cyperales is a Botanical name for an order of Flowering plants. Poaceae or Gramineae is a family in the Class Liliopsida of the flowering plants. Cenchrus is a genus of about 25 species of grasses. Common names include buffelgrasses, sandburs, and sand spur. biflorus

Binomial name

Cenchrus biflorus
Roxb.

Cenchrus biflorus is a species of annual grass in the Poaceae family. William Roxburgh ( June 29, 1751 &ndash April 10, 1815) was a Scottish Surgeon and Botanist. Grass is the common word that generally describes Monocotyledonous green Plants The family Gramineae ( Poaceae) are the "true grasses" and include Poaceae or Gramineae is a family in the Class Liliopsida of the flowering plants. Common names include Indian sandbur, Bhurat or Bhurut in India, Haskaneet in Sudan, K 'arangiya in the Hausa language of Nigeria, and Ngibbi in the Kanuri language of Nigeria. Sudan (officially the Republic of Sudan) ( السودان al-Sūdān is a country in northeastern Africa. Hausa is the Chadic language with the largest number of speakers spoken as a first Language by about 24 million people and as a second language by about 15 Nigeria, officially named the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal Constitutional republic comprising thirty-six states and one Federal Kanuri is a dialect continuum spoken by approximately 4 million people in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, as well as small minorities ^[1]

It is common in the Sahel savannas of Africa, south of the Sahara. See also Sahel Tunisia, a region of eastern Tunisia. The Sahel or Sahel Belt (from Arabic ساحل sāḥil The Sahara (الصحراء الكبرى aṣ-ṣaḥrā´ al-kubra, "The Great Desert" is the world's largest hot Desert and the world's second largest ^[2] According to a botanical criteria of geographer Robert Capot-Rey, the northern limit of Cenchrus biflorus defines the southern boundary of the Sahara. Botanic is an electoral ward of South Belfast, named after Botanic Gardens a local park ^[3]^[4]

It is also found in India, where the seeds are used in Rajasthan and its Marwar region to make bread, either alone or mixed with Bajra (millet). Rājasthān ( Devanāgarī: राजस्थान raːdʒəst̪ʰaːn is the largest state of the Republic of India in terms of area Geography In 1901 the region (Jodhpur state had an area of 90554 km² (34963 square miles Pearl millet ( Pennisetum glaucum) is the most widely grown type of Millet. ^[5]

References

^ "Famine foods: Poaceae or Gramineae" Purdue University Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture [1]. Accessed December 29, 2007.
^ "Sahelian Acacia savanna" WWF Scientific Report [2]. Accessed December 29, 2007.
^ Grove, A. T. , nicole (1958,2007). "The Ancient Erg of Hausaland, and Similar Formations on the South Side of the Sahara". The Geographical Journal 124 (4): 528-533.
^ Bisson, J. (2003). Mythes et réalités d'un désert convoité: le Sahara. L'Harmattan. (French)
^ "Famine foods: Poaceae or Gramineae" Purdue University Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture [3]. Accessed December 29, 2007.

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