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Echinochloa colona
(Poaceae)

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Species description or overview

Echinochloa colona information from PIER
Information on Echinochloa colona as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).


Taxonomy & nomenclature

GRIN nomenclature info for Echinochloa colona
Nomenclatural information about Echinochloa colona is provided by USDA/ARS/NGRP/GRIN.

Echinochloa colona information from the Smithsonian's Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Information about Echinochloa colona--including nomenclature and synonymy, and status and distribution in Hawaii--is provided by the "Flora of the Hawaiian Islands" website of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Links from this page include descriptive information about the species, as well as worldwide distributional information and general information about the genus.

Echinochloa colona information from ITIS
The Integrated Taxonomic Information System ITIS provides authoritative taxonomic information on Echinochloa colona, as well as other plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.

IPNI nomenclature info for Echinochloa colona
Nomenclatural information about Echinochloa colona is provided by The International Plant Names Index (IPNI).


Impacts

Echinochloa colona (Poaceae): species information from GCW
Information on Echinochloa colona as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).


Images

Images of Echinochloa colona (Poaceae) (jungle-rice)
Links to high-resolution free images of Echinochloa colona (Poaceae) (jungle-rice) by Forest & Kim Starr (USGS) are available here.

Echinochloa colona information from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Information about Echinochloa colona in Hawaii is available from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands.

Echinochloa colona images from PIER
Images of Echinochloa colona provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).


Distribution

Echinochloa colona information from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Information about Echinochloa colona in Hawaii is available from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands.

Echinochloa colona information from the Smithsonian's Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Information about Echinochloa colona--including nomenclature and synonymy, and status and distribution in Hawaii--is provided by the "Flora of the Hawaiian Islands" website of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Links from this page include descriptive information about the species, as well as worldwide distributional information and general information about the genus.


Where to see this species

Kahoolawe (Kanaloa): natural areas of Hawaii
Forest and Kim Starr provide information about the island of Kahoolawe as a natural area in Hawaii. Links to additional resources are provided, as well as links to images of plant species found on Kahoolawe.


Books

Weed handbook of Western Polynesia
Whistler, W. Arthur. 1983. Weed handbook of Western Polynesia. Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft f#r Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH. ISBN: 3-88085-227-8.

Weeds of the West
Whitson, Tom D., Larry C. Burrill, Steven A. Dewey, David W. Cudney, B.E. Nelson, Richard D. Lee, and Robert Parker. Whitson, Tom D. (ed.) . 2001. Weeds of the West. 9th ed. Laramie: University of Wyoming. ISBN: 0-941570-13-4.


Full-text articles

The grasses of Hawaii
Hitchcock, A.S. 1922. The grasses of Hawaii. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press : New York, Kraus Reprint Co. (1974). 235 pp. illus. (line drawings).

Oahu Offshore Islets Botanical Survey
Starr, F. and K. Starr. 2006. Oahu Offshore Islets Botanical Survey. Report prepared for State Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Offshore Islet Restoration Committee, Honolulu, Hawaii.


Other resources

The grasses of Hawaii
Hitchcock, A.S. 1922. The grasses of Hawaii. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press : New York, Kraus Reprint Co. (1974). 235 pp. illus. (line drawings).


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