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Echinochloa colona (L.) Link

Poaceae · Algeria, Egypt +101

English names not checked: Wikidata's common names were not read for this page.

No habitat climate
Sow seed
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Summary

Echinochloa colona, commonly known as jungle rice, wild rice, deccan grass, jharua or awnless barnyard grass, is a type of wild grass originating from tropical Asia. It was formerly classified as a species of Panicum. It is the wild ancestor of the cultivated cereal crop Echinochloa frumentacea, sawa millet. Some taxonomists treat the two taxa as one species, in which case the domesticated forms may also be referred to as E. colona.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Echinochloa colona", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 6 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 6 of the 6 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the keys of the names Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 2702813 (Panicum colonum L., 33 records), 4123333 (Milium colonum (L.) Moench, 0 records), 5943676 (Panicum crus-galli subsp. colonum (L.) K.Richt., 0 records), 6313087 (Panicum crus-galli var. minus Thwaites, 0 records), 7769108 (Panicum crus-galli subsp. colonum (L.) Makino & Nemoto, 0 records), 8267644 (Milium colonum (L.) Kunth, 0 records), 9324907 (Panicum crus-galli subsp. colonum (L.) Trab., 0 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeAlgeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Madeira, Benin, Burkina, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Is., Rwanda, Zaïre, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Socotra, Somalia, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Cape Provinces, Lesotho, Namibia, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Swaziland, Northern Provinces, Comoros, Madagascar, Seychelles, Tadzhikistan, Afghanistan, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Sinai, Gulf States, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, China South-Central, Hainan, China North-Central, China Southeast, Tibet, Xinjiang, Nansei-shoto, Ogasawara-shoto, Taiwan, Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Himalaya, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, South China Sea, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, New Guinea · introduced: Great Britain, Ireland, Sweden, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Baleares, Corse, France, Portugal, Sardegna, Spain, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Sicilia, Turkey-in-Europe, Yugoslavia, Central European Russia, Ukraine, Mauritius, Réunion, Rodrigues, Primorye, Turkey, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, Andaman Is., Nicobar Is., Christmas I., Solomon Is., New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, Fiji, Nauru, Niue, New Caledonia, Samoa, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Vanuatu, Wallis-Futuna Is., Cook Is., Marquesas, Society Is., Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Caroline Is., Marianas, Hawaii, Manitoba, Ontario, Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., Vermont, West Virginia, Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, District of Columbia, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Aruba, Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is. AB Ant, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Turks-Caicos Is., Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is., French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Galápagos, Peru, Brazil West-Central, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil North, Brazil South, Argentina Northeast, Argentina South, Argentina Northwest, Juan Fernández Is., Paraguay, Uruguay · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“annual” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 6 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 2 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1821 km away. 16 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 6 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 2702813 (Panicum colonum L.): Kew's file holds it as Panicum colonum L. (synonym under Echinochloa colona (L.) Link); 33 records, from GBIF's download.Records also from GBIF's key 4123333 (Milium colonum (L.) Moench): Kew's file holds it as Milium colonum (L.) Moench (synonym under Echinochloa colona (L.) Link); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 5943676 (Panicum crus-galli subsp. colonum (L.) K.Richt.): Kew's file holds it as Panicum crus-galli subsp. colonum (L.) K.Richt. (synonym under Echinochloa colona (L.) Link); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 6313087 (Panicum crus-galli var. minus Thwaites): Kew's file holds it as Panicum crus-galli var. minus Thwaites (illegitimate under Echinochloa colona (L.) Link); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 7769108 (Panicum crus-galli subsp. colonum (L.) Makino & Nemoto): Kew's file holds it as Panicum crus-galli subsp. colonum (L.) K.Richt. (synonym under Echinochloa colona (L.) Link); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 8267644 (Milium colonum (L.) Kunth): Kew's file holds it as Milium colonum (L.) Moench (synonym under Echinochloa colona (L.) Link); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 9324907 (Panicum crus-galli subsp. colonum (L.) Trab.): Kew's file holds it as Panicum crus-galli subsp. colonum (L.) K.Richt. (synonym under Echinochloa colona (L.) Link); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.

Photographs

Photographs: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (6).

Other Echinochloa 2 in the reference

Names & registers

Also known as Echinochloa crus-galli subsp. colona; Oplismenus colonus; Panicum colonum; Panicum crus-galli subsp. colonum; Panicum crus-galli var. minus and 2 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

The record

Family
Poaceae
Described by
(L.) Link
Native to
Algeria, Egypt, Libya +100
Wild records
6 in range · 2 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Echinochloa colona (L.) Link (plant_name_id 410176), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 33 records of GBIF's key 2702813, Panicum colonum L. (Kew's file holds it as Panicum colonum L. (synonym under Echinochloa colona (L.) Link)): the GBIF download; 0 records of GBIF's key 4123333, Milium colonum (L.) Moench (Kew's file holds it as Milium colonum (L.) Moench (synonym under Echinochloa colona (L.) Link)): GBIF occurrence search API; 0 records of GBIF's key 5943676, Panicum crus-galli subsp. colonum (L.) K.Richt. (Kew's file holds it as Panicum crus-galli subsp. colonum (L.) K.Richt. (synonym under Echinochloa colona (L.) Link)): GBIF occurrence search API; 0 records of GBIF's key 6313087, Panicum crus-galli var. minus Thwaites (Kew's file holds it as Panicum crus-galli var. minus Thwaites (illegitimate under Echinochloa colona (L.) Link)): GBIF occurrence search API; 0 records of GBIF's key 7769108, Panicum crus-galli subsp. colonum (L.) Makino & Nemoto (Kew's file holds it as Panicum crus-galli subsp. colonum (L.) K.Richt. (synonym under Echinochloa colona (L.) Link)): GBIF occurrence search API; 0 records of GBIF's key 8267644, Milium colonum (L.) Kunth (Kew's file holds it as Milium colonum (L.) Moench (synonym under Echinochloa colona (L.) Link)): GBIF occurrence search API; 0 records of GBIF's key 9324907, Panicum crus-galli subsp. colonum (L.) Trab. (Kew's file holds it as Panicum crus-galli subsp. colonum (L.) K.Richt. (synonym under Echinochloa colona (L.) Link)): GBIF occurrence search API; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-226 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 399655-1, POWO 399655-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 15 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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