Janochloa
{{Short description|Species of grass}}
{{Speciesbox
|image = Panicum antidotale detail.jpg
|genus = Janochloa
|parent_authority = Zuloaga & Delfini
|display_parents = 3
|species = antidotalis
|authority = (Retz.) Zuloaga & Delfini
|synonyms =
- Chasea prolifera {{small|(Lam.) Nieuwl.}}
- Milium effusum {{small|Lour., sensu auct.}}
- Panicum akoense {{small|Hayata, pro syn.}}
- Panicum antidotale {{small|Retz. (1786)}} (basionym)
- Panicum brevifolium {{small|Balb. ex Nees, pro syn.}}
- Panicum elliottii {{small|Trin. ex Nees, pro syn.}}
- Panicum meneri {{small|J.Koenig ex Nees, pro syn.}}
- Panicum miliare {{small|Lam.}}
- Panicum musciparum {{small|L. ex Munro, pro syn.}}
- Panicum proliferum {{small|Lam.}}
- Panicum sparsum {{small|Rottler ex Steud., nom. illeg.}}
- Paspalum miliare {{small|(Lam.) K.Schum. & Hollrung, nom. illeg.}}
|synonyms_ref = {{cite web |title=Janochloa antidotalis (Retz.) Zuloaga & Delfini |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77319974-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=23 May 2025}}
}}
Janochloa antidotalis (Punjabi: ਘਮੂਰ ghamur, English: blue panicgrass, synonym Panicum antidotale) is a species of grass. it is the sole species in genus Janochloa. It is a tall (up to 3 metres), coarse, woody perennial grass strong spreading rhizomes. It is native to southern Asia, ranging from the Sinai Peninsula through the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Transcaucasia, the Indian Subcontinent, and Myanmar to Vietnam. In the Indian Subcontinent it is found in the Himalaya and the Upper Gangetic Plain and specifically in various regions of the Indian state of Punjab and the Pakistan province of Punjab and the neighbouring areas of these regions.
This grass is also listed (as Panicum antidotale) by William Coldstream in his Illustrations of Some of the Grasses of the Southern PunjabColdstream, William: Illustrations of Some of the Grasses of the Southern Punjab: Being Photo-lithographs of the Principal Grasses found at Hisar with short Descriptive letterpress W. Thacker & Co., 82 Newgate Street, London, 1889. with the vernacular name ghirri (Punjabi ਘਿੱਰੀ) which he however explains is not known to those landowners that he had interviewed as a separate species of Panicum but rather as an unripe form of Panicum antidotale which is generally called in Punjabi ghamur (ਘਮੂਰ).
Habitat
Janochloa antidotalis is found in rich soils that have often been improved with compost or dung be they originally of sand or clay. According to Coldstream, for some reason it seems to be found in the vicinity of caper bushes.{{Cn|date=June 2021}}
Usage
This grass is not considered of much use beyond its early tender stages having a bitter or brackish taste when it matures. It is grown in the southwestern United States as a forage, and can now be found there growing wild as an introduced species.[http://herbarium.usu.edu/webmanual/info2.asp?name=Panicum_antidotale&type=treatment Grass Manual Treatment] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611160711/http://herbarium.usu.edu/webmanual/info2.asp?name=Panicum_antidotale&type=treatment |date=2011-06-11 }}[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?8738,9153,9157 Jepson Manual Treatment]
Pests and diseases
Janochloa antidotalis is susceptible to yellow stripe disease which is usually found in sugar-cane. The disease in this grass, in which the virus persists for long periods, is capable not only of infecting sugar-canes in their vicinity, but also serves as new sources of infection when diseased canes have been removed.Ledeboer, F. 1922: Arch. Suikerind. Nederl.-Indie. 30: 21, 359-362
Names in various languages
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=Punjabi dialect forms=
The following dialect forms are recorded in Punjabi for this grass:
- Firozpur: ਗਰ੍ਮ garham s.m.
- Hisar: ਘਿੱਰੀ ghirri s.f. - Though see Coldstream's note above.
- Jhang: ਘਮੂਰ ghamūr s.m. - Where Panicum antidotale is not found on the prevalent nitrate-saturated soils of the district (called in Punjabi ਕਲੱਰ kallar).
- Multan: ਕੁਟਕੀ kuṭkī s.f., 1. A gnat; 2. The name of a plant Panicum miliare used medicinally; 3. Hellebore. Which again seems to be a synonym for Panicum antidotale. Compare the Punjabi form ਕੁਦਕੀ kudkī for Panicum miliare which is a synonym for Panicum antidotale.
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: ਘਮੂਰ ghamūr s.m.; ਗਰ੍ਮ garham s.m.
=Other Indian languages=
==[[Indo-Aryan languages]]==
- Hindi: कुटकी kuṭkī [Compare Prakrit कुटुकिआ kuṭukīā< from Sanskrit कटुक kuṭuk + इका -ikā], s.f. 1. A medicinal plant, Black Hellebore, Helleborus niger; wolf's bane; aconite; 2. A kind of grain, Panicum miliare. See above where as in dialectal Punjabi forms the reference here is to Panicum antidotale. The meaning is found in Hindi कुटकी kuṭkī [S. कुट्टक (rt. कुट्ट्)+इका], s.f. 1. Cutting, dividing; 2. A nip; 3. An incision (made with the teeth, &c., on thread, &c.;4. A gnat (cf. S. kaṭu-kīṭa);5. Estrangement, separation (from), desertion (of):--kuṭkī denā, or kuṭkī lagānā (-meṅ), 1. To nip; 2. To make an incision (in), to cut (the string of a kite, &c.).
==[[Dravidian languages]]==
- Gondi: kōhalā, (W. Ph.) kohalā, (S.) kohala s.m.
- Kannada: koṟale, korle s.m., A kind of millet, Panicum italicum Linn.
- Konḍa: koṟeŋ (pl.) s.m., A grain.
- Kota: koyḷ s.m., Foxtail millet Setaria italica; korly id. (< Badaga); korra manḍeya s.m., Finger millet Eleusine coracana.
- Kui: kueri s.m., Millet, Panicum italicum Linn.
- Malayalam: koʼla s.m.,{{dubious|date=August 2013}} Panicum miliare, gor̥a (pl. -ŋ).
- Parji: koyla s.m., Panicum italicum.
- Tamil: சாமை cāmai (சாமி), s.m., A kind of grain, millet. < From Old Indo-Aryan šyāmā s.m., 1. Poor-man's millet, sown in Āvaṇi and maturing in six weeks to four months, Echinochloa crus-galli. Compare: சிறுசாமை ciṟu-cāmai, n. < id. + சாமை, a kind of little millet, Panicum miliare; சாமைவகை. (சங். அக.); புற்சாமை puṟ-cāmai, n. < id. + a species of little millet, Panicum; சாமைவகை.; பனிச்சாமை paṉi-c-cāmai, n. < பனி + a kind of little millet, Panicum; சாமைவகை. (யாழ். அக.). Though as noted above Panicum miliare is a synonym: in northern India it seems to refer to Panicum antidotale, whilst in southern India it seems to refer to Echinochloa crus-galli.
- kural s.m., Italian millet.
- Telugu: samalu (pl.) id.; The cereal yielding samalu.
=Other languages=
References
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Category:Monotypic Poaceae genera
Category:Flora of the Arabian Peninsula
Category:Flora of the Indian subcontinent
Category:Flora of the Transcaucasus