Echinochloa colona

Characteristics
Angiosperms (Monocots)
POACEAE
Echinochloa
Echinochloa colona (L.) Link
Jungle Rice; Shama Millet; Awnless Barnyard Grass
Herb
Annual
Vascular
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Ward (2005) made an argument that the spelling of the epithet should be "colonum" like the basionym. APA will follow IPNI and at this time IPNI uses "colona".
Not Native FACW (NWPL)
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Ward, D.B. 2005. A case of disputed orthography: is it Echinochloa colona; or is it Echinochloa colonum (Gramineae). Sida 21: 2171-2183.
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Classification
POALES
Echinochloa
Echinochloa colona (L.) Link - Jungle Rice; Shama Millet; Awnless Barnyard Grass
Citation
<a href=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13609491>Echinochloa colona (Linnaeus) Link, Hort. Berol. [Link] 2: 209. 1833.</a>
<a href=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/586789>Panicum colonum L. 1759.</a>
<a href=http://linnean-online.org/1255/>JAMAICA: Without data, Browne s.n. (lectotype: LINN 80.23). Lectotypified by Clayton & Renvoize, in Polhill, Fl. Trop. E. Afr., Gramin. 557. 1982.</a>
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