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Local name: ছোট শ্যামাঘাস, ক্ষুদে শ্যামা
English name: Jungle rice, Wild rice, Deccan grass, Jharua, Awnless barnyard grass
Scientific name: Echinochloa colonum
Family: Poaceae
It is an annual weed, resistant to climatic hazard. They are multi seasonal.
Grows in dryland soil. They cannot persist in water logging condition.
Annual grass; seeds germinate throughout the year. Short life cycle and complete several cycles in a year.
Aus rice, jute, wheat, barley, potato etc.
Propagated by seed, prolific seed producer; seeds have little or no dormancy.
Linear, smooth, dense green; lower side is wide and upper side is narrow, looks like rice leaf. Has leaf blade and leaf sheath but no ligule or auricle.
Stem culm; hollow inter node.
Spikelets have small awn, panicle is short, branched.
Adventitious, many tillering.
It can be controlled by racking and hand pulling. Contact poison may be used as herbicide.