Echinochloa
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Echinochloa is a genus, some of whose members are grown as cereal or fodder crops, grouped with the millets, and known by common names including barnyard millet and billion-dollar grass.
Domesticated species are:
- Echinochloa esculenta (Japanese Millet)
- Echinochloa frumentacea (White Millet)
- Echinochloa stagnina
Wild species include:
- Echinochloa caudata
- Echinochloa colona (Shama Millet)
- Echinochloa crus-galli (Barnyard grass/Cockspur)
- Echinochloa oryzoides (Early water grass)
[edit] External links
- Plants for a Future database on E. crus-galli
- Lost Crops of Africa: Volume 1: Grains, Chapter 14: Wild Grains
- Alternative Field Crops Manual: Millets
- Multilingual taxonomic information from the University of Melbourne
[edit] Reference
Pheng, S., B. Khiev, C. Pol and G. C. Jahn 2001. Response of two rice cultivars to the competition of Echinochloa crus-gali (L.) P. Beauv. International Rice Research Institute Notes (IRRN) 26 (2): 36-37.
