Planting unit

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.

Shape

EllipticElliptic:
Outline of an ellipse; greatest width midway sloping to an equally pointed apex and base.

Size

• Length 3 mm
• Width 2 mm
• Thickness 1.5 mm

Color

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.

Texture

Shiny and smooth lemmaLemma:
One of two bracts of the grass floret; it is located on the side nearest the embryo and opposite the rachilla.
and paleaPalea:
One of the thin bracts of grass floret enclosing the fruit (caryopsis) that is located on the side opposite the embryo.
; few hispid hairs on the glumesGlume:
The pair of chaffy bracts that occur at the base of a grass spikelet, often completely enclosing it.
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Lemma

Very convex and an equally pointed apexApical:
The distal end of the fruit or seed away from the point of attachment or attachment scar.
and base

Palea

Flat

Other structures

Short point on the sterile lemma apexApical:
The distal end of the fruit or seed away from the point of attachment or attachment scar.

Family

Poaceae

Valid name

Echinochloa colona (L.) Link

Synonyms

Panicum colonum L.