Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Bayer Code : echph
Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Panicum phyllopogon Fiori, Panicum oryzicola Vasing Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) Beauv. var. oryzicola (Vasing) Owhi , Echinochloa oryzicola Vasing.
Classification: Gramineae, Monocotyledonous
Common name: Echinochloa phyllopogon
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Phyllopogon-Hühnerhirsekopf ; ES : ; FR : panic phyllopogon ; IT : giavone peloso ; PT : milhã-do-arroz ;
Biological type: Annual
- Leaves : greenish, carinate, with marked central vein, edge scabrous.
- Height : 50-150 cm.
- Leaves : often reddened, without ligule and auricles, sheath carinate; blade 10-30x0.5-1.2 cm, scabrous at the edge; edge with characteristic elongate patent hairs between the blade and the sheath.
- Inflorescence : greenish, abundant, contracted, formed by many racemes alternately arranged along a slightly curved or erect axis; sometimes with tuft of hairs at the nodes ; spikelets 2-flowered, the lower sterile or male, the upper hermaphrodite ; lower glume 1/3 as long as the sterile lemma, ciliate along the veins ; lemma 4 mm, sterile, with 2 rows of cilia along each side, glabrous at the central part, awn 5 up to 10 mm.
- Fruit : big, elliptic caryopsis.
- Risk of confusion with: other species of the same genus.
- Biological type : annual.
Mistake with: Echinochloa
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