Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 72 (1753).

Derivation: Greek kynos, of a dog; oura, tail; shape of the panicle.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Erect glabrous annual or perennial herbs; particle spike-like.

Spikelets nearly sessile; upper spikelet on each branch fertile, of few rioters; lower spikelets sterile, with rigid awned distichous lemmas; glumes of fertile spikelets thin, subequal, acute, keeled; lemmas of fertile spikelets terete, coriaceous, awned. (From Clapham, Turin & Warburg (1962) Flora of the British Isles).

Distribution:  3 or 4 Old World species.

Biology: No text

Key to Species:

1. Panicle narrow-oblong in outline; awns short or 0	C. cristatus 1.
1. Panicle ovoid or broad-oblong in outline; awns of fertile lemmas longer than the body of the lemma	C. echinatus 2.

Author: Not yet available