BarnOmics
Barnyard Millet Database
Barnyard Millet Database
| Common Name: | Japanese barnyard millet |
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| Ploidy and Chromosome number: | Allohexaploid, 2n = 6x = 54 |
| Origin: | Eastern Asia, Japan, China, and Korea |
| Habitat: | Annual, and warm-season |
| Synonyms: | Japanese millet, marsh millet, Siberian millet, and white millet |
| Distribution: |
Widely distributed in India,Temperate Asia, Australia, and Pacific |
| General morphology: | Robust, 60-122 cm tall, with smooth leaf sheaths 10-50 cm long and 7-25 mm wide. Green with light to dark purple pigmentation in some parts. Compact, brown to purple inflorescence, 12-15 cm long, with 5–15 racemes, 0.5-3 cm long. Spikelets are dense, branched, 3-4 mm long, shortly cuspidate, and rarely awned |
