Taxon: Echinochloa frumentacea Link

Common names:

• billion-dollar grass   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• Indian barnyard millet   (Source: Taxon 41:522. 1992)
  
• sama   (Source: Names Watson as Panicum frumentaceum)
  
• Sawahirse   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• Siberian millet   (Source: F NAmer )
  
• white millet   (Source: BSBI )
  
• white panic   (Source: F NAmer )
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Animal food: fodder; forage   (fide Econ Pl Aust)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• AFRICA
  Africa [e.]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States

Other:

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. (Grass BCIP)
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators. (NRCS Cons Pl Mat)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. (Grass US) [= E. crusgalli var. frumentacea].
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Scholz, H. 1992. Taxon 41:522.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
• Watson, J. F. 1868. Index to the native and scientific names of Indian and other eastern economic plants and products. (Names Watson) [= Panicum frumentaceum].

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Echinochloa frumentacea.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Echinochloa frumentacea. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Echinochloa crus-galli var. frumentacea (Link) E. G. Camus & A. Camus
  (previously associated with 12 accessions)
• (≡) Oplismenus frumentaceus (Link) Kunth
  
• (≡) Panicum frumentaceum Roxb.
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)

Check other databases for Echinochloa frumentacea Link:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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