Plant Profile
Herb descriptions
Botany
Binomial nomenclature
Echinochloa colona
Scientific Name and Description
Echinochloa colona (L.) Link
Herb Family
Plant type
Grass
Plant Synonyms
Plant Synonyms
Panicum colonum L.
Echinochloa colona (L.) Link (lapsus)
Echinochloa equitans (Hochst ex A. Rich.) Hubb. ex Troup.
Echinochloa zonalis (Guss.) Parl.
Milium colonum (L.) Moench
Oplismenus clonus (L.) Kunth
Oplismenus muticus Philippi
Oplismenus repens J. Presl
Panicum equitans Hochst. ex A. Rich.
Panicum incertum Bosc ex Steud.
Panicum musei Steud.
Panicum prorepens Steud.
Panicum zonale Guss.
Echinochloa colona (L.) Link (lapsus)
Echinochloa equitans (Hochst ex A. Rich.) Hubb. ex Troup.
Echinochloa zonalis (Guss.) Parl.
Milium colonum (L.) Moench
Oplismenus clonus (L.) Kunth
Oplismenus muticus Philippi
Oplismenus repens J. Presl
Panicum equitans Hochst. ex A. Rich.
Panicum incertum Bosc ex Steud.
Panicum musei Steud.
Panicum prorepens Steud.
Panicum zonale Guss.
Plant Names - Common - Regional - Vernacular
| English | jungle rice, shama millet, small barnyard grass |
| Hindi | jangli jhangora, jharwa, jirio, sama |
| Kannada | kaadu haaraka, kaadu haaraka hullu |
| Marathi | borur, jiria, pacushama, sawank, todia, tor |
| Telugu | othagaddi |
Plants Medicinal Value
Medicinal Systems
Folk
Herb usable parts
Whole plant
Ethnopharmacology use
Echinochloa colona (L.) Link Grass Whole plant Edible General Dileep and Nair 2015
References
Literature
Literature
Dileep and Nair 2015
Flora of Himachal Pradesh Vol III Author - H.J.chowdhery & B.M.Wadhwa
The Flora of the Gulf of Mannar Author - P. Daniel & P. Umamaheswari
Published 11 February 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.32859/era.18.4.1-112
Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT)
The National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB), Department of AYUSH
Citations
Herb citations
Echinochloa colona. (2023, November 18). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinochloa_colona