Jungle Rice
Echinochloa colona
Also known as Corn Panicgrass
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Jungle Rice
Identify Jungle Rice by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Panicle.
- Confirm fruit surface: Smooth, not spiny.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Poaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Jungle Rice.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Echinochloa colona
- Genus
- Echinochloa
- Family
- Poaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Marshes and bunds of paddy fields
- Habitat type
- Wetland
- Distribution
- Tropics and sub-tropics
- Found in India
- Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Punjab, Telangana, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Typical of the Poaceae family — a field-mark hint, not measured for this exact species.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower arrangement
- PaniclerecordedA branching cluster of clusters.“The panicles are used by the aboriginals [sic.] as an article of food.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fruit surface
- Smooth, not spinyrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Spike
- Fruit
- Grain
Characters marked “recorded” are for Jungle Rice itself; the rest are typical of the Poaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Jungle Rice
A member of the Poaceae family, Jungle Rice (Echinochloa colona) is a herb. In India it has been recorded in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and 20 other states. It grows in marshes and bunds of paddy fields. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Poaceae
Grass family
Jungle Rice belongs to the Poaceae family.
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