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iEchinochloa
Image:Echinochloa crus-galli.jpg Echinochloa crus-galli
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Poales Order: Liliopsida Family: Poaceae Subfamily: Panicoideae Genus: Echinochloa P.Beauv.
Species
See text.

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)

[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 Melbourneca:Panissola

cs:Ježatka de:Hühnerhirsen es:Echinochloa fr:Millet japonais lt:Rietmenė ja:ヒエ pl:Chwastnica pt:Echinochloa

[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.