- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
- Synonym(s) : Echinochloa colonum var. frumentacea (Link) Ridl.; Echinochloa crus-galli var. edulis Hitchc.; Echinochloa crus-galli subsp. edulis Honda; Echinochloa crus-galli var. frumentacea (Link) W.F.Wright; Oplismenus frumentaceus (Link) Kunth; Panicum crus-galli var. edule Makino & Nemoto; Panicum crus-galli var. frumentacea (Link) Trimen; Panicum frumentaceum Roxb.; Echinochloa glabrescens var. barbata Kossenko; Echinochloa glabrescens var. glabra Kossenko; Echinochloa glabrescens var. pilosa Kossenko
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Echinochloa colonum subsp. edulis (Honda) Banfi & Galasso
- Common name : Japanese Barnyard Millet, Spike Grass.
- Vernacular name :
- Barti, Sawan, Shamule (Marathi)
- Habit : Herb
- Comments / notes : Cultivated on a small scale
- Flower, Fruit : June-February
- Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha, S.R.Ramesh
- Collection Date : 06/09/1978
- Collection Nos : KFP 2569
- Collection Locality : B.R. Hills road, Mysuru district
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Mysuru district
- Kerala : Ernakulam district, Alappuzha district
- Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Akola district, Amravati district, Chandrapur district, Dhule district, Jalna district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng
- Native : Central African Repu, India, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Central African Repu, India, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
- R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons
- Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 287
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Echinochloa frumentacea. Downloaded on 7 October 2024.
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