Panicum equitansHochst. ex A.Rich. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Echinochloa colona(L.) Link [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Panicum equitans
Panicum piptopilum
Orthopogon dichotomus
Panicum colonum
Panicum cumingianum
Panicum parvifolium
Echinochloa colona
Oplismenus muticus
Flora
Entry for ECHINOCHLOA colona (L.) Link [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
ECHINOCHLOA colona(L.) Link [family POACEAE], (1833). Fig. 127.
Information
Annual; stems up to 100 cm high, erect or ascending; ligule absent. Inflorescence typically linear, 1–15 cm long, the racemes neatly 4-rowed; racemes seldom over 3 cm long, simple, commonly half their length apart and appressed to the axis, but sometimes subverticillate and spreading (rarely forming a lanceolate head, but then the spikelets purplish with the lower floret male). Spikelets ovate-elliptic to subglobose, 1.5–3(–3.5) mm long, pubescent (rarely shortly hispid); lower floret male or barren, the lemma acute to cuspidate (rarely with a subulate point up to 1 mm long); upper lemma 2–3 mm long.
Range
N1–3; C2; S1–3 throughout the tropics and subtropics.
