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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 />

68 <strong>Rice</strong> <strong>seed</strong> <strong>health</strong> <strong>testing</strong> <strong>manual</strong>

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