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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG029 : Echinochloa colona (Linn.) Link

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 590  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Poales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Echinochloa
Species : Echinochloa colona (Linn.) Link
Plant Location in Melghat :  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : Sanwak, Jungle Rice, Shama Millet, Small barnyard grass, Jangli jhangora, Jharwa, Jirio, Shama, kaadu haaraka, kaadu haaraka hullu, borur, jiria, pacushama, sawank, tor, todia, othagaddi,
 
Synonym : Panicum colonum L.
Echinochloa colonum (L.) Link (lapsus)
Echinochloa equitans (Hochst ex A.
Rich.) Hubb. ex Troup.
Echinochloa zonalis (Guss.) Parl.
Milium colonum (L.) Moench
Oplismenus clonus (L.) Kunth
Oplismenus muticus Philippi
Oplismenus repens J. Presl
Panicum equitans Hochst. ex A. Rich.
Panicum incertum Bosc ex Steud.
Panicum musei Steud.
Panicum prorepens Steud.
Panicum zonale Guss.
Description : Annual; culms 10-100 cm high, erect or ascending. Leaf-blades 5-30 cm long. 2-8 mm wide, occasionally marked with purple bars; ligule absent; sheaths glabrous. Inflorescence typically linear, 1-15 cm long, the racemes neatly 4-rowed, seldom over 3 cm long, simple, commonly ± half their length apart and appressed to the axis but sometimes subverticillate and spreading. Spikelets ovate-elliptic to subglobose, 1.5-3 mm long, pubescent; lower lemma acute to cuspidate (rarely with a subulate point up to 1 mm long); upper lemma 2-3 mm long. Fl. & Fr. Per.: May -September
 
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Reference : ~ Chandra Prakash Kala; "Aboriginal uses and management of ethnobotanical species in deciduous forests of Chhattisgarh state in India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2009); 5(20): 1-9 PMID :

~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :