WorldFloraDB - Echinochloa oryzoides

Characteristics

Annual. Culms erect, forming a narrow tuft up to 1 m tall. Leaf sheaths and blades glabrous or rarely lower leaves with a dense tuft of hairs on abaxial side at junction of sheath and blade; leaf blades stiffly erect, linear, flat, 10–30 × 1–1.5 cm, margins thickened and scabrous. Inflorescence 8–15 × 1.5–3 cm; racemes simple. Spikelets light green, ovate, 3.8–6 mm; glumes hispid along veins, lower glume 1/2–2/3 as long as spikelet, acuminate; upper glume acuminate; lower lemma acuminate or with an awn up to 2 cm; upper lemma 3.5–5 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul–Oct. 2n = 54.

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A millet grass. It is an annual grass. It can form tufts or have a single stem. It grows 0.3-1.5 m high. The flowers are green and purple. The seeds are about 3 mm long by 2 mm wide.

Life form

annual

Growth form

herb

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

-

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

anemogamy

Spread

barochory epizoochory

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

0.28 - 1.5

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

-

Environment

It grows in tropical and temperate places. It is harvested as a wild cereal in Russia. It grows on clay. In Argentina i grows below 500 m above sea level. Tasmanian Herbarium.

Light
Soil humidity
Soil texture
Soil acidity
Soil nutriment
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

Uses	gene source
Edible	seeds
Therapeutic use	-
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Mode	-
Germination duration (days)	-
Germination temperacture (C°)	-
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	-
Minimum temperature (C°)	-
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-

Images

Echinochloa oryzoides unspecified picture

Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1023961-2
WFO ID	wfo-0000865380
COL ID	38H3B
BDTFX ID	23420
INPN ID	95682
Wikipedia (EN)	Link
Wikipedia (FR)	Link

Synonyms

Echinochloa phylloryzoides Echinochloa coarctata Echinochloa hispidula Echinochloa hostii Echinochloa macrocarpa Echinochloa oryzicola Echinochloa oryzoides Echinochloa phyllopogon Panicum oryzicola Panicum oryzinum Digitaria hispidula Echinochloa erecta Oryza rubra Panicum erectum Panicum mirabile Echinochloa pachychloa Oplismenus hispidulus Orthopogon retzii Echinochloa phyllopogon Panicum hispidulum Panicum hostii Panicum oryzoides Panicum phyllopogon Panicum phylloryzoides Echinochloa crus-galli subsp. hispidula Echinochloa crus-galli subsp. oryzicola Echinochloa crus-galli var. hispidula Echinochloa crus-galli var. macrocarpa Echinochloa crus-galli var. oryzacea Echinochloa crus-galli var. oryzicola Echinochloa crus-galli var. oryzoides Echinochloa crus-galli var. riukiuensis Echinochloa oryzoides subsp. oryzicola Echinochloa oryzoides subsp. phyllopogon Echinochloa phyllopogon subsp. oryzicola Echinochloa phyllopogon subsp. stapfiana Echinochloa phyllopogon var. stapfiana Panicum crus-galli var. grandiflorum Panicum crus-galli var. hispidulum Panicum crus-galli subsp. hostii Panicum crus-galli var. oryzoides Echinochloa crus-galli var. hostii Echinochloa oryzicola subsp. phyllopogon Panicum crus-galli var. hostii Echinochloa crus-galli subsp. oryzoides Echinochloa crus-galli subsp. hostii

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Echinochloa oryzoides (Ard.) Fritsch

Early water grass (en), Échinochloé faux Riz (fr), Échinochloa faux riz (fr), Panic faux riz (fr), Échinochloé faux riz (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Echinochloa