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A thermal analysis of plants proposed for green barriers supplies the distinct source line for Echinolaena inflexa. For this record, it leads to an avoid recommendation, but the support is explicitly limited evidence. The page therefore keeps the study's result attached to this grass instead of presenting “green barrier” as a blanket endorsement.
The source row and recommendation can be read together in the evidence table. The related-plants section offers same-form cited alternatives for comparison, which is more useful here than stretching one thermal-analysis result beyond the species and evidence actually shown.
Highly flammable — location does not change the cited classification.
Fire-performance conditions
Fire ecology context
Placement evidence
Evidence regions
Federal District, Brazil; Global
Maintenance
2. Why this plant is relevant here
State distribution
Native range
Introduced / established
USDA hardiness
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
Legal-list status
Seed-list status
Reported invasive here
Broader regional context
Federal context
How to read this page
The status above is computed from the cited rows below: independent recommendations can support a fire-resistant result, an avoid row can produce keep-away, and disagreement stays visible as conflict. Placement notes preserve each source’s own scheme rather than translating unlike rules into one scale. This is evidence about a plant, not permission to plant it in every part of the defensible space; Zone 0 remains noncombustible.
The evidence
Grouped by what each source concluded. Primary evidence rated the plant itself
(a lab, field program, or original curation); corroboration compiled or
republished another source's rating and resolves to its root lineage.
5 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
Primary study deSouza2019: de Souza, M. A., & Vale, A. T. (2019). Levantamento de plantas de baixa inflamabilidade em áreas queimadas de Cerrado no Distrito Federal e análise das suas propriedades físicas. Ciência Florestal, 29, 181.
Shared row context: Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device calorimeter; site deSouza2019-1; sampling september.
“calorific value (kcal/kg): 4548”
FLAMITS record 2848.
“calorific value (kcal/kg): 2869.4”
FLAMITS record 2852.
Primary study Zanzarini2019: Zanzarini, V. (2019). Inflamabilidade de espécies do estrato herbáceo do cerrado. Master dissertation. Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp).
Shared row context: plant part whole plant; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Zanzarini2019-1; sampling ND.
