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Table 12.1 continued<br />
Family and<br />
species<br />
Seed<br />
description<br />
Range <strong>of</strong><br />
detection<br />
in incoming<br />
<strong>seed</strong>s a<br />
Sample <strong>of</strong><br />
country<br />
in which<br />
detected a<br />
Figure<br />
number<br />
Digitaria sp.<br />
Echinochloa colona<br />
(L.) Link<br />
Echinochloa crusgalli<br />
(L.) Beauv.<br />
ssp. hispidula<br />
(Retz.) Honda<br />
2 mm about half the<br />
length <strong>of</strong> the caryopsis.<br />
Seed (spikelet)<br />
pubescent green tinged<br />
with purple, <strong>seed</strong>s white<br />
to yellow, egg-shaped<br />
(ovate) 1.3 mm long<br />
and 1 mm wide<br />
Seed (spikelet) glumes<br />
hairy, long awn present,<br />
smooth, yellow green to<br />
yellow brown, ovate,<br />
convex, about 1.5 mm<br />
long by 1 mm wide<br />
0-.10%<br />
.32-.40%<br />
Madagascar<br />
Bangladesh,<br />
Bhutan, China<br />
Egypt, India<br />
Iran, Madagascar,<br />
Nepal,<br />
Pakistan,<br />
Sri Lanka,<br />
Vietnam,<br />
South<br />
Africa<br />
12.7<br />
12.8<br />
lschaemum<br />
Salisb.<br />
Panicum repens<br />
rugosum<br />
Panicum sp.<br />
Paspalum distichum<br />
L. [= P. Paspalodes<br />
(Michx.) Scribn.]<br />
Paspalum sp.<br />
Rottboelia<br />
cochinchinensis<br />
(Lour.) W. D.<br />
Clayton<br />
Glumes transversely<br />
ribbed, nerves many and<br />
winged above, <strong>seed</strong>s light<br />
brown, biconvex. measuring<br />
2 mm long by 1 mm wide,<br />
smooth or very finely<br />
reticulated<br />
Spikelets oblong-ovate.<br />
acute or slightly acuminate,<br />
3 mm long<br />
Fruit nearly as long as<br />
the spikelet, 1.2 mm wide.<br />
smooth, usually without<br />
hairs (glabrous). but some<br />
may have a few bristly<br />
hairs at the apex, first<br />
glume very small or absent,<br />
second glume as long as<br />
the spikelet anti 3- to<br />
5-nerved, lemmas 3- to<br />
5 nerved and shiny, with<br />
prominent but <strong>of</strong>ten<br />
<strong>of</strong>f-center midnerve.<br />
lemmas <strong>of</strong> fertile florets<br />
finely roughened by longitudinal<br />
rows <strong>of</strong> minute tubercles,<br />
producing faintly striate effect,<br />
glumes and sterile lemma<br />
<strong>of</strong>ten finely pubescent, with<br />
s<strong>of</strong>t hairs on the upper<br />
portion and along their<br />
sides, spikelels flattened,<br />
never strongly arched,<br />
with a broad base on the<br />
fertile floret and short,<br />
pointed apex<br />
Spikelets 4-5 mm long.<br />
the stalkless one yellowish,<br />
smooth and hard, sunk<br />
into the thick internode;<br />
stalked spikelets green<br />
and leafy, with thick<br />
flattened stalk fused<br />
with the internode<br />
.05-.30% Bhutan<br />
Nepal<br />
0-.10%, Madagascar<br />
0-.10%<br />
.04-.40%<br />
Egypt<br />
Madagascar<br />
Bangladesh<br />
Madagascar<br />
Pakistan<br />
12.9<br />
12.10<br />
12.11<br />
12.12<br />
aBased on observations at SHU, <strong>IRRI</strong>.<br />
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