Echinochloa colona (Linn.) Link
MG029 : Echinochloa colona (Linn.) Link
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 590 |
| 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.; |
| 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, |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
| 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 |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=242319661 |
| 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 : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Poales |
| Family | : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family |
| Genus | : Echinochloa |
| Species | : Echinochloa colona (Linn.) Link |