EPPO Global Database

Echinochloa stagnina(ECHST)

Overview
Code created in: 1996-10-28

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: ECHST
  • Preferred name: Echinochloa stagnina
  • Authority: (Retzius) Palisot de Beauvois

Notes

Native to Southern Mediterranean, Western Asia (Pakistan), Himalayas, India, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Malesia, practically all Africa, Madagascar, New Guinea.


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Echinochloa hostii Steven ex Link
Echinochloa lelievrei (A. Chevalier) Berhaut
Echinochloa scabra (Lamarck) Römer & Schultes
Panicum burgu A. Chevalier
Panicum stagninum Retzius

Common names
Name Language
burgugrass English
hippograss English
long-awned watergrass English