Echinochloa crusgalli seedlings

Echinochloa crusgalli seedlings

(compendium)

[source] it is the root and seedling leaf of gramineous plant Echinochloa crusgalli.

Plant morphology Echinochloa crusgalli (Zuozhuan)

Annual herb, 50-130 cm high. Culms erect or widely spreading. Leaf blade flat, linear, 40 cm long, 5-10 mm wide, leaf sheath bald, ligule missing. Panicle erect, narrow, irregularly spiriform, 10-30 cm long; branches compound, overlapped, widely spread or closely attached, the lowest slightly alienated, the longest usually longer than 2 cm, the upper part acuminate and closely followed; spikelet about 3 mm long, coarsely hairy or papillate coarsely hairy, awn 1 cm or longer, or only a tip: the first glume ovate, about 1 / 8 of the spikelet; the second glume and not Lemma of pregnant floret subequal, 5-veined; sterile floret neutral, palea; lemma of fruiting floret elliptic, 2.5-3 mm long, white or brown. The flowering and fruiting period is autumn.

It grows in swamp and is one of the weeds in rice field. It is distributed all over the warm areas of China.

[functions and indications] the compendium of Medical Sciences: "the golden sores and injuries are bleeding unceasingly, which should be tamped or mixed at the end of the research. "

Chinese PinYin : Bai Gen Miao