Plant Details

Accepted name:: Echinochloa colonum (L.) Link [Poaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 2

Echinochloa colonum subsp. colonum

Echinochloa colonum subsp. edulis (Honda) Banfi & Galasso

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
gira tana	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
jangali sawuk	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
karumpul	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
saanvaa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
salazu	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
shama millet	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
shamaa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
varaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
varsanampillu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
光头稗子	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
光頭稷	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
稗	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
		Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 7 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Panicum colonum L. Syst. Nat., ed. 10. 2: 870 (1759).
Echinochloa crus-galli subsp. colonum (L.) Honda Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 37: 122 (1923).
Milium colonum (L.) Moench Methodus: 202 (1794).
Oplismenus colonum (L.) Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: 108 (1816).
Oplismenus crus-galli var. colonum (L.) Coss. & Durieu in M.C.Durieu de Maisonneuve, Expl. Sci. Algérie 2: 28 (1855).
Panicum crus-galli subsp. colonum (L.) K.Richt. Pl. Eur. 1: 26 (1890).
Panicum crus-galli var. minus Thwaites Enum. Pl. Zeyl.: 359 (1864), nom. superfl.

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Echinochloa colona	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
Echinochloa colona (L.) Link	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Echinochloa colonum	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Echinochloa colonum (L) Link	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Echinochloa colonum (L.) Link	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Echinochloa colonum (Linn.) Link.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Panicum colonum	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Panicum colonum L.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Panicum colonum Linn.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)

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