✿Poaceae · Setaria
Kangni / Indian Millet
Setaria italica
Also known as Fox-Tail Millet
HerbMedicinal
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh & more
- Flowering
- September-February
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Setaria italica
- Genus
- Setaria
- Family
- Poaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Distribution
- Widely cultivated
- Found in India
- Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Odisha, Rajasthan, Kerala, Manipur, Tripura, Uttarakhand
- Flowering & fruiting
- September-February
- 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
- Fruit surface
- Smooth, not spinyrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Spike
- Fruit
- Grain
Characters marked “recorded” are for Kangni itself; the rest are typical of the Poaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- कांगणी Kangni,कँगनी kangani,कंगनी kangani
- Nepali
- Kaguno, कागुनी
- Bengali
- কাওন দানা Kaon dana, কাউন, কাওন
- Tamil
- தினை Thinai, கங்கு, Kavalai, தினை
- Telugu
- కొఱ్ఱలు, కొర్రలు, సెటేరియా ఇటాలికా
- Kannada
- ನವಣೆ Navne, ನವಣೆ
- Malayalam
- തിന Thina, തിന, Foxtail millet
- Marathi
- राळं Ral, राळे, राळा तांदूळ
- Sanskrit
- प्रियङ्गुः
- Punjabi
- ਫੌਕਸਟੇਲ ਬਾਜਰੇ
About Kangni
Indian Millet (Setaria italica) belongs to the Poaceae family, where it grows as a herb. In India it has been recorded in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and 15 other states. Flowering and fruiting run from September to February.
Botanical family
Poaceae
Grass family
Kangni belongs to the Poaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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