Echinochloa glabrescens Munro ex Hook.F.

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Echinochloa

Characteristics

Culms erect or slightly decumbent at base, 50–120 cm tall. Leaf sheaths smooth and glabrous; leaf blades stiffly erect, linear, flat, 10–30 × 0.6–1.2 cm, glabrous, margins thickened, apex acuminate. Inflorescence narrow, 8–15 × 1–2(–3) cm; racemes 1–4 cm, simple. Spikelets light green, 3.5–5 mm, awnless or awned; glumes 5-veined; lower glume 1/3–1/2 as long as spikelet, acute; upper glume equal to spikelet, inconspicuously scabrous to shortly hispid along veins, cuspidate to awn-tipped; both lemmas coriaceous, hard and shining, especially down the center, the lower cuspidate to awned. Fl. and fr. summer–autumn. 2n = 54.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
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Distribution

Echinochloa glabrescens world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:399676-1
WFO ID wfo-0001098150
COL ID 38H25
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Synonyms

Echinochloa glabrescens