EPPO Global Database

Echinochloa pyramidalis(ECHPY)

Overview
Code created in: 1996-10-28

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: ECHPY
  • Preferred name: Echinochloa pyramidalis
  • Authority: (Lamarck) Hitchcock & Chase

Notes

Native to Southeast Mediterranean (Egypt), Western Asia (Arabia), Africa (throughout), Madagascar. Cultivated as a pasture grass. Introduced in Himalayas, Indochina (Vietnam), Mexico, Central America, South America (Guyanas).


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Echinochloa holubii (Stapf) Stapf
Echinochloa senegalensis Mez
Echinochloa verticillata Berhaut
Panicum pyramidale Lamarck

Common names
Name Language
antelope grass English
Kalahari watergrass English
Antilopengras German