Echinochloa colona (L.) Link
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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
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
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.
Photographs
Photographs: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (6).
Related
Other Echinochloa 2 in the reference
Echinochloa crus-galli Barnyard grass Photo: CC BY, mycoroco
Echinochloa muricata Rough barnyard grass Photo: CC BY, Alan Prather 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
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Echinochloa colona (L.) Link (plant_name_id 410176), read from Kew's names filegbif.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 askedgbif.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 askedgbif.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 askedwcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04gbif.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)climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-226 in-range records, none placed to within 10 kmwikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 399655-1, POWO 399655-1wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22inat.photos.wild not askedinat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.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 askedcommons answeredasked 2026-10-22openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery 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.
