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Glumes stiff-hispid; spikelets ± loosely arranged on one side of the rhachis Echinochloa
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Spikelets awnless
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Fruit 2–2.5 mm long, 1.8–2.25 mm wide. Panicle very compact, densely crowded
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Spikelets ± strongly purplish to blackish brown (rarely pallid when bleached), shortly acute, 3–4 mm long, 2–2.5 mm wide. Fruit brownish. Culms up to 1 m high. Widespread. Cultivated. Roadsides. Introd. from E. Asia. Fl. summer. Japanese Millet or Ankee Millet Echinochloa esculenta