Cynosurus echinatus

growing at the edge of coastal saltmarsh at Tavora yellow-eyed penguin reserve near Goodwood, Otago.<br>Photographer: John Steel, Date taken: 20/04/2014, Licence: All rights reserved. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

A Cynosurus echinatus spike.<br>Photographer: John Smith-Dodsworth, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

Growing at the edge of coastal saltmarsh at Tavora yellow-eyed penguin reserve near Goodwood, Otago.<br>Photographer: John Steel, Date taken: 19/04/2014, Licence: All rights reserved. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Common name

Rough dogstail

Family

Poaceae

Authority

Cynosurus echinatus L.

Flora category

Vascular – Exotic

Structural class

Grasses

NVS code

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CYNECH

Conservation status

Not applicable

Year naturalised

1906

Origin

Eurasia

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