Echinochloa colona (L.) Link

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Poaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Echinochloa colona (L.) Link

  • Description

    Species Description - 'Culms tufted, smooth and glabrous, 1.5-7.5 dm. tall, often decumbent and rooting at the lower nodes. Sheaths compressed, usually crowded; leaves flat, 2.5-17 cm. long, 2-8 mm. wide; inflorescence composed of 3-18, 1-sided, more or less spreading dense racemes 6-50 mm. long, disposed along a 3-angled rachis and generally somewhat exceeding the length of the internodes; spikelets single, in pairs, or in 3 's in 2 rows on one side of the hispidulous, triangular rachis, obovate, pointed, the first scale about one-half as long as the spikelet, 3-nerved, the second and third scales a little more than 2 mm. long, awnless, 5-nerved, hispid on the nerves, the fourth scale cuspidate.

  • Distribution

    Waste places, Turks Islands : Virginia to Florida and Texas ; tropical regions. Jungle Rice.

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