Taxon: Echinochloa colona (L.) Link

Common names:

• awnless barnyard grass   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• barnyard millet   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• corn-panic grass   (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.) – English
  
• Deccan grass   (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.) – English
  
• jungle ricegrass   (Source: Names Beetle ) – English
  
• jungle-rice   (Source: Grass Tex ) – English
  
• millet-rice   (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.) – English
  
• shama millet   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• wild millet   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• watergras   (Source: Ecocrop ) – Afrikaans
  
• ābu rokba   (Source: F Egypt ) – Arabic
  
• blé du Dekkan   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Schamahirse   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• capim-arroz   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• capim-da-colônia   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• capituva   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• armilán   (Source: Grass Cuba II) – Spanish
  
• pasto del arroz   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• zancaraña   (Source: Grass Cuba II) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Econ Pl Aust; Weed CIBA)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire; Guinea; Niger; Nigeria
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Zambia
  Southern Africa: South Africa
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Myanmar; Thailand
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark
  Middle Europe: Austria; Czech Republic; Germany
  East Europe: Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Greece; Italy
  Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Marshall Islands; Micronesia; Palau
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; New Caledonia; Niue
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Puerto Rico
  Mesoamerica: Central America; Costa Rica
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Paraguay

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal

• origin obscure

References:

• 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 4:125–126.
• Beetle, A. A. 1970. Recommended plant names. Univ. Wyoming Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. J. 31.
• Boulos, L. 1999–. Flora of Egypt.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) ["colonum"].
• Catasús Guerra, L. J. 2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1–163.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• 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.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Grubben, G. J. H. & Soetjipto Partohardjono, eds. 1996. Cereals. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 10:87–88.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. ["colonum"].
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• International Development Consortium. Invasive species compendium (on-line resource).
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Michael, P. W. 2009. Echinochloa colona versus "Echinochloa colonum"(Poaceae). Taxon 58:1366–1368. [discusses orthography, favors "colona"].
• Nicolson, D. H. 1986. Species epithets and gender information. Taxon 35:324. [discusses orthography, favors "colona"].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Soerjani, M. et al., eds. 1987. Weeds of rice in Indonesia.
• Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana.
• Ugarte, E. et al. 2011. Vascular alien flora, Chile. Check List 7:365–380.
• Veldkamp, J. F. 1997. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Wang, Z. et al., eds. 1990. Farmland weeds of China: a collection of coloured illustrative plates. ["colonum"].
• Ward, D. B. 2005. A case of disputed orthography: is it Echinochloa colona; or is it Echinochloa colonum (Gramineae). Sida 21:2171–2183. [discusses orthography, 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.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Echinochloa colona.

Synonyms:

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

Check other web resources for Echinochloa colona (L.) Link:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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
• AusGrass2: Australian grass data from Bryan K. Simon’s on-line database
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Spikelets and/or florets: 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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