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Echinolaena inflexa
Echinolaena inflexa
Your local evidence lens
Separate evidence questions, never one approval badge
A genus split is not a placement verdict. Set a ZIP to read the local documented split.
1. Fire evidence and conditions
- Fire evidence
- Highly flammable — location does not change the cited classification.
- Fire-performance conditions
- No test or rating condition is normalized.
- Fire ecology context
- No section-reviewed fire-ecology context is normalized.
- Placement evidence
- 0 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
- Evidence regions
- Federal District, Brazil; Global
- Maintenance
- No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.
2. Why this plant is relevant here
- State distribution
- No state distribution is normalized.
- Native range
- No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
- Introduced / established
- No introduced or established row is normalized; that does not prove native status.
- USDA hardiness
- No hardiness value is normalized.
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
- Legal-list status
- Set a location for an exact legal-list result; source silence is not clearance.
- Seed-list status
- Set a location to compare the separate state noxious-weed seed layer.
- Reported invasive here
- No ecological invasive report is normalized; that does not prove noninvasiveness.
- Broader regional context
- Aggregate AK, HI, and L48 evidence is shown only as regional context, never as an exact-state finding.
- Federal context
- Federal designations remain separate from state legal-list results.
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.
- Form
- grass
- Region
- Brazil
- Rated in
- Federal District, Brazil; Global
- Family
- Poaceae
- Evidence
- 7 cited sources
The evidence
Avoids (2)
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Survey of low-flammability plants in burned Cerrado areas and analysis of physical properties
“High flammability”
author-defined high-flammability grass comparator; physical-property composite score 58.
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Thermal analysis of low-flammability plants for green barriers against forest fires
“High flammability”
Ignition delay 70 s; flame duration 176 s; TGA onset 260.5 °C.
Listed without a rating (5)
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FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database
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“calorific value (kcal/kg): 4548”
FLAMITS record 2848; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device calorimeter; site deSouza2019-1; sampling september. 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.
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“calorific value (kcal/kg): 2869.4”
FLAMITS record 2852; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device calorimeter; site deSouza2019-1; sampling september. 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.
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“maximum sample temperature (°C): 70.94”
FLAMITS record 14579; Combustibility measurement; plant part whole plant; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Zanzarini2019-1; sampling ND. Primary study Zanzarini2019: Zanzarini, V. (2019). Inflamabilidade de espécies do estrato herbáceo do cerrado. Master dissertation. Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp).
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“estimated burnt biomass (%): 80”
FLAMITS record 14600; Consumability measurement; plant part whole plant; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Zanzarini2019-1; sampling ND. Primary study Zanzarini2019: Zanzarini, V. (2019). Inflamabilidade de espécies do estrato herbáceo do cerrado. Master dissertation. Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp).
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“rate of burning spread (cm/s): 0.7”
FLAMITS record 14621; Sustainability measurement; plant part whole plant; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Zanzarini2019-1; sampling ND. Primary study Zanzarini2019: Zanzarini, V. (2019). Inflamabilidade de espécies do estrato herbáceo do cerrado. Master dissertation. Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp).
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