Echinochloa

Echinochloa

Taxobox
name = "Echinochloa"


image_width = 200px
image_caption = "Echinochloa crus-galli"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
ordo = Liliopsida
classis = Poales
familia = Poaceae
subfamilia = Panicoideae
genus = "Echinochloa"
genus_authority = P.Beauv.
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Echinochloa" is a genus, some of whose members are grown as cereal or fodder crops, grouped with the millets, and known by common names including barnyard millet and billion-dollar grass.

Domesticated species are:

* "Echinochloa esculenta" (Japanese millet)
* "Echinochloa frumentacea" (White millet)
* "Echinochloa stagnina"

Wild species include:

* "Echinochloa caudata"
* "Echinochloa colona" (Shama millet)
* "Echinochloa crus-galli" (Barnyard grass/Cockspur)
* "Echinochloa oryzoides" (Early water grass)

External links

* [http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Echinochloa+crus-galli&CAN=COMIND Plants for a Future database on "E. crus-galli"]
* [http://newton.nap.edu/books/0309049903/html/266.html Lost Crops of Africa: Volume 1: Grains, Chapter 14: Wild Grains]
* [http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/afcm/millet.html Alternative Field Crops Manual: Millets]

References

Pheng, S., B. Khiev, C. Pol and G. C. Jahn 2001. Response of two rice cultivars to the competition of "Echinochloa crus-gali" (L.) P. Beauv. International Rice Research Institute Notes (IRRN) 26 (2): 36-37.


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