Agricultural
billion-dollar grass
SpikeletSpikelet:
One or more florets that are subtended by a pair of bracts called glumes. Spikelets are pedicellate if located on a pedicle and sessile if attached directly to the rachis. Often spikelets with single florets have remnants of a second floret, usually a lemma.
OvateOvate:
Egg-shaped with basal end the broadest.
Brown glumesGlume:
The pair of chaffy bracts that occur at the base of a grass spikelet, often completely enclosing it.
; yellow to gray floretsFloret:
A small flower in a clustered inflorescence (e.g., sunflower, grasses). In grasses, a floret consists of the lemma, palea, stamens, and pistil.
with yellow lines.
GlumesGlume:
The pair of chaffy bracts that occur at the base of a grass spikelet, often completely enclosing it. have some hispid hairs on the veins. FloretsFloret:
A small flower in a clustered inflorescence (e.g., sunflower, grasses). In grasses, a floret consists of the lemma, palea, stamens, and pistil. are shiny and smooth.
Very convex; apexApical:
The distal end of the fruit or seed away from the point of attachment or attachment scar.
is more pointed than the base.
Flat
Sterile lemmaLemma:
One of two bracts of the grass floret; it is located on the side nearest the embryo and opposite the rachilla.
is short awned and longer than the second glumeGlume:
The pair of chaffy bracts that occur at the base of a grass spikelet, often completely enclosing it..
The units found in commerce can be spikeletsSpikelet:
One or more florets that are subtended by a pair of bracts called glumes. Spikelets are pedicellate if located on a pedicle and sessile if attached directly to the rachis. Often spikelets with single florets have remnants of a second floret, usually a lemma., floretsFloret:
A small flower in a clustered inflorescence (e.g., sunflower, grasses). In grasses, a floret consists of the lemma, palea, stamens, and pistil., or caryopsesCaryopsis:
The single-seeded fruit or grain of the grass family (Poaceae); the fruit wall (pericarp) is united with the seed coat (testa).
. They are very difficult to distinguish from those of E. crus-galli.
Not listed
Included
Poaceae
Echinochloa frumentacea Link
Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) P. Beauv. ssp. edulis Hitchc.
Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) P. Beauv. var. frumentacea (Roxb.) W. Wight
Panicum frumentaceum Roxb., non Salisb.
