Taxon: Echinochloa colona (L.) Link

Common names:

• armilá;n   (Source: Grass Cuba II )
  
• awnless barnyard grass   (Source: F NAmer )
  
• blé du Dekkan   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• capim-arroz   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• capim-da-colônia   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• capituva   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• corn panic grass   (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.)
  
• Deccan grass   (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.)
  
• jungle ricegrass   (Source: Names Beetle )
  
• jungle-rice   (Source: Grass Tex )
  
• millet-rice   (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.)
  
• pasto del arroz   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• Schamahirse   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• shama millet   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• zancaraña   (Source: Grass Cuba II )
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Animal food: forage   (fide F Ceylon; Pl Res SEAs 4:125-126. 1992)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Econ Pl Aust; Weed CIBA)
  

Distributional range:

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

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  North America

Other:

• widely naturalized throughout tropic, subtropic, & warm-temperate regions

References:

• Beetle, A. A. 1970. Recommended plant names. Univ. Wyoming Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. J. 31. (Names Beetle)
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA) ["colonum"].
• Catasús Guerra, L. J. Cavanillesia Altera
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Gould, F. W. et al. 1972. A revision of Echinochloa in the United States. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 87:56. ["colonum"].
• Gould, F. W. 1975. The grasses of Texas. (Grass Tex)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Grubben, G. J. H. & S. Partohardjono, eds. 1996. Cereals. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 10:87–88.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. (Grass US) ["colonum"].
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
• 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)
• Malezasdemexico. Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
• Mannetje, L. 't & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 4:125–126.
• Nicolson, D. H. 1986. Species epithets and gender information. Taxon 35:324. [discusses orthography].
• 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)
• Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. (F VenGuay)
• Veldkamp, J. F. 1997. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Ward, D. B. 2005. A case of disputed orthography: is it Echinochloa colona; or is it Echinochloa colonum (Gramineae). Sida 21:2171–2183. [favors "colonum"].
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:215.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Echinochloa colona.

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

Synonyms:

• (≡) Panicum colonum L. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)

Check other databases for Echinochloa colona (L.) Link:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• 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

More:

• 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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