Echinochloa colona - Jungle Rice

❏ Binomial Name : Echinochloa colona (L.) Link.

❏ Synonym : Panicum colonum,Brachiaria longifolia,Setaria brachiariiformis

❏ Family : Poaceae

❏ Common Name : Jungle Rice

❏ Hindi Name : Jangli jhangora, Jharwa, Jirio

❏ IUCN status: Least Concern

Echinochloa colona Botanical Description

Annuals. Culms 10-80 cm high, erect; nodes glabrous. Leaves 3-25 x 0.2-0.7 cm, linear-lanceolate, rounded or shallowly cordate at base, apex acuminate; sheaths keeled; ligules absent. Panicles 3-15 cm long, spiciform; racemes 4-10, each 1-3 cm long. Spikelets 2-4 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, greenish-yellow or purplish. Lower glume 1-2 x 1-1.5 mm, ovate, acuminate, chartaceous, 5-nerved, hispid. Upper glume 2-4 x 1.5-2 mm, ovate or boat-shaped, acuminate, chartaceous, hispid. Lower floret barren. Upper floret bisexual. First lemma 2-4 x 1.5-2 mm, ovate, 7-nerved. Palea c. 2 x 1 mm, ovate-oblong, hyaline, 2-keeled. Second lemma 2-3 x 1 mm, ovate-elliptic. Palea 1.5-2 x 1 mm, ovate-oblong, mucronate, 2-keeled. Stamens 3; anthers c. 0.5 mm long, violet. Ovary c. 0.5 mm, oblong; stigmas pink. Fl. &Fr.: Throughout the year.

Echinochloa colona Medicinal uses

❀ The seed can be cooked whole or ground into a flour and used as a mush or porridge.

❀ Plant is used as fodder by grazing animals. It cures ingestion

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