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  • COMMON NAME: Jungle rice, millet rice, panic grass.
  • ARABIC: أبو ركبة، مداده
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Echinochloa colona (L.) Link
  • SYNONYMS: Panicum colonum L.
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Ras-Al-Khaimah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. https://www.floraofqatar.com/echinochloa_colona.htm
Used as digestive and to treat constipation.
Annual, with many culms, procumbent to ascending, 20-40 cm high, rooting at base-Leaf-blades flaccid, linear, soft, glabrous, up to 20 cm long. Ligule absent. Panicle of spaced racemes, each 1-2 cm long, appressed or ascending. Spikelets 2-4 mm long, hairy, sometimes purplish. Glumes ans lemmas not awned or cuspidate. Flowering from March to August.
Farms, gardens, orchard and moist places.
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