Summary
Place of publication:
Hort. berol. 1:204. 1827
Comment:
[or E. colona Frumentacea Group]
Verified:
05/07/1991
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
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Common names
English
billion-dollar grass – Indian barnyard millet – Siberian millet – white millet – white panicum – white-panic – German
Sawahirse – India
sama –
Distribution
| order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
| 2 | Cultivated | Africa | East Tropical Africa | Tanzania | | |
| 2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Anhui | |
| 2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Guizhou | |
| 2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Heilongjiang | |
| 2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Henan | |
| 2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Nei Mongol | |
| 2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Ningxia | |
| 2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Yunnan | |
| 2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Taiwan | | |
| 2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | | |
| 2 | Cultivated | Australasia | Australia | Australia | | |
| 4 | Naturalized | Northern America | | United States | | |
| 6 | Other | | | | | |
Cultivated
Africa
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EAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Tanzania
Asia-Temperate
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CHINA:
China [Anhui, Guizhou, Heilongjiang, Henan, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Yunnan]
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EASTERN ASIA:
Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
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INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India
Australasia
Naturalized
Northern America
Other
()
Economic Uses
| Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
| Animal food | fodder | | Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. 1993 |
| Animal food | forage | | Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. 1993 |
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System.
2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network
(GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=14828.
Accessed 26 December 2024.