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Echinochloa colona

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FamilyLiliopsida:Commelinidae:Cyperales:Gramineae
SynonymsPanicum colonum L.
Common namesawnless barnyard grass, ble' de dekkan, capim da colonia, jungle grass, jungle rice, milha(n) da colonia, milhan da colonia, shama millet, swanki ghass, watergras
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION A tufted annual up to 60 cm high with geniculate culms and erect panicle, 5-13 cm high. USES Used for pasture and hay. The seed is eaten by humans in times of stress. KILLING T Frost resistant down to about -9°C. GROWING PERIOD Fast-growing summer annual grass. Commence flowering 20-30 days from emergence. In the Sahel it flowers from August and has died off by February. COMMON NAMES Jungle rice, Awnless barnyard grass, Grama de agua, Pasto colorado, Azz, Rumput jajagoan kecil, Rumput bebek, Tuton, Padi burung, Rumput kusa-kusa, Pulang-puwit, Guinga, Dakayang, Myet-thi, Pazun-sa-myet, Khauz nok, Ya noksichomphu, Ya-nokkhao, Co'long vu'c, Katabaria, Difra, Defera, Difera, El Difra el Barda, El Difra el Kubara, Belbetet, Amuriat. FURTHER INF Scientific synonyms: E. crus-galli ssp. colona, E. colonum, E. equitans, E. divaricata, Panicum colonum, P. equitans. In rice fields, jungle rice can be a serious problem because the young plants closely resemble young rice plants. It can also become a weed in other crops. It can be found at elevations between sea level and 2000 m. In arid areas jungle rice can be an important pasture costituent growing in ponds, swampy places and seasonally flooded grassland while the water lasts, and usually seeding before it dies. Some strains have salt-tolerance. The plant is producing poisons.
Sources
Grassland Index
Mannetje L 1992 pp 125-126 [LIMIT, DRA, RAIN, LIG, TEXT]
Skerman P 1990 pp 370-372 [RAIN, TEXT, DRA]
White F 1983 pp 108 191
Jansen P 1991 pp 179
IBPGR 1984 pp 169