Echinochloa

• Authority

  Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Echinochloa

• Description

  Description - Inflorescence paniculate, the usually compact, densely flowered panicle composed of 1-sided racemes or of subsimple branches ; spikelets hispid or spiny; glumes usually mucronate ; sterile lemma usually awned ; fruit subindurate, acuminate-pointed, the summit of the palea not inclosed.