Botanical Name - Echinochloa colona

----- Echinochloa colonum ; Linn. (Syn. Panicum colonum Linn). Vern Otha gaddi, Kaproda gaddi ( Tel ).

----- An annual grass about 3 ft. high with culms from a decumbent or creeping base ; nodes glabrous or slightly hairy. Leaves flat, glabrous, soft with rough margin 8 in. long. Sheath up to 6 in in. long. smooth, glabrous. Inflorescence of number of spikes, directed upward or slightly spreading, arranged alternately on a mid axis. Lower spikes about half the length of the spike apart, but the upper gradually becoming closer. Spikelets globose, dull green, hairy, arranged in two rows on the same side of the rhachis.

----- Found in many parts of Telangana forests, near forest paths and in hedges of forest villages. A favourite fodder grass but nowhere in large quantity.