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Echinochloa

*Echinochloa crus-galli (Linnaeus) Palisot de Beauvois ssp. utilis (Ohwi & Yabuno) T. Koyama. Common name: Japanese Millet. Habitat: Cultivated, and as a waif. Distribution: Native of Japan.

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Origin/Endemic status: E. and se. Asia

Taxonomy Comments: Long thought to be derived from domesticated plants of E. crus-galli before 4.0 kyBP in Japan (Crawford 2011), E. esculenta appears to differ in having persistent grains in maturity, plumply ovate spikelets, and incurved inflorescence branches (Chen and Phillips 2007), although see Banfi and Galasso (2021).

Synonymy ⓘ: = POWO, Banfi & Galasso (2021); = Echinochloa esculenta (A.Braun) H.Scholtz — FNA25, K4, Mi, NY, Va; = Echinochloa frumentacea Link — NS; = n/a — C, RAB; Echinochloa utilis Ohwi & Yabuno. Basionym: Echinochloa utilis Ohwi & Yabuno 1962 "Urbasionym:" Panicum esculentum A.Braun 1862

Links to other floras: = Echinochloa esculenta - FNA25

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FAC
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACU
  • Great Plains: FACU
  • Midwest: FACW
  • Northcentral & Northeast: FACU

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