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| Synonyms: |
Echinochloa colona (L.) Link var. frumentacea (Link) Ridl. |
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| Status: | Introduced |
| Description: |
Robust annual. Culms 30–150 cm. high, erect; ligule absent. Inflorescence 6–20 cm. long, lanceolate, congested; racemes 1–3 cm. long, several-rowed with crowded spikelets, simple, densely overlapping. Spikelets 2.5–3.5 mm. long, plump and often gaping to expose superior floret, ± tardily deciduous, yellowish or pallid, pubescent to hispid. Inferior floret barren, its lemma shortly acute. Superior lemma 2–3 mm. long |
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| Habitat: | Cultivated as a minor grain crop, or occurring as an escape in inhabited places. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Tropical Asia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| Mozambique distribution: | N,M |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Clayton, W.D. (1989). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(3) Page 55. Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 37. Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 67. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 103. |
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