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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG084 : Echinochloa crusgalli (L.) P. Beauv.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : -  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Poales
Family : Poaceae
Genus : Echinochloa
Species : Echinochloa crusgalli (L.) P.Beauv.
Plant Location in Melghat : Bod village, Dharni block  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Poaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Dodoma, cockspur (or cockspur grass), barnyard millet, Japanese millet, water grass, common barnyard grass, or simply "barnyard grass"
 
Synonym : Digitaria hispidula (Retz.) Willd.
Echinochloa caudata Roshev. Echinochloa commutata Schult.
Echinochloa crus-corvi (L.) P.Beauv.
Echinochloa crus-pavonis var. austrojaponensis (Ohwi) S.L.Dai
Echinochloa crus-pavonis var. breviseta (Döll) S.L.Dai
Echinochloa crus-pavonis var. praticola (Ohwi) S.L.Dai
Echinochloa disticha St.-Lag. nom. illeg.
Echinochloa dubia Roem. & Schult.
Echinochloa echinata (Willd.) Nakai
Echinochloa formosensis (Ohwi) S.L.Dai
Echinochloa glabrescens Kossenko
Echinochloa hispida (E.Forst.) Schult.
Echinochloa macrocarpa var. aristata Vasinger
Echinochloa macrocarpa var. mutica Vasinger
Echinochloa macrocorvi Nakai
Echinochloa madagascariensis Mez
Echinochloa micans Kossenko
Echinochloa muricata var. occidentalis Wiegand
Echinochloa occidentalis (Wiegand) Rydb.
Echinochloa paracorvi Nakai
Echinochloa persistentia Z.S.Diao
Echinochloa pungens var. occidentalis
(Wiegand) Fernald & Griscom
Echinochloa spiralis Vasinger
Echinochloa zelayensis (Kunth) Schult.
Milium crus-galli (L.) Moench
Oplismenus crus-galli (L.) Dumort.
Oplismenus dubius (Roem. & Schult.) Kunth
Oplismenus echinatus (Willd.) Kunth
Oplismenus limosus J.Presl
Oplismenus zelayensis Kunth
Orthopogon crus-galli (L.) Spreng.
Orthopogon echinatus (Willd.) Spreng.
Panicum alectorocnemum St.-Lag. nom. illeg.
Panicum alectromerum Dulac nom. illeg.
Panicum corvi Thunb. nom. illeg.
Panicum corvipes Stokes nom. illeg.
Panicum cristagalli Gromov ex Trautv.
Panicum crus-galli L.
Panicum cruscorvi L.
Panicum echinatum Willd.
Panicum goiranii Rouy
Panicum grossum Salisb. nom. illeg.
Panicum hispidum G.Forst.
Panicum limosum J.Presl ex Nees
Panicum oryzetorum Sickenb. nom. illeg.
Panicum scindens Nees ex Steud.
Panicum zelayense (Kunth) Steud.
Pennisetum crus-galli (L.) Baumg.
Description : The plants are stout, pigmentation green, stem slender, leaves green, leaf blade pubescence glabrous, sheath pubescence glabrous, flat and broad to the extent of 2.5 cm. Inflorescence 10-20 cm, usually inclined or drooping, spike sessile or subsessile, erect and rarely decurved, spikelets 0.35 – 0.4 cm, long , ovoid, greenish or tinged purple, densely packed in 3 to 5 rows, turgid. Flowering and fruiting August-November. Plant height 90-110 cm, leaf length 25.0- 45.0 cm, leaf width 1.0-2.5 cm, peduncle length 13.1-23.9 cm, inflorescence length 25.6-42.3 cm, spike length 1.4-2.3 cm and inflorescence width 0.4-0.5 cm.
 
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Reference : ~ Dikshit Nilamani; "Two new records of Poaceae to the Flora of Melghat Biosphere Reserve, Amravati, India"; Journal on New Biological Reports (2014); 3(2): 133-136 PMID :