Kutki millet

Kutki millet
	Kutki millet ( Panicum sumatrense )
Systematics
	Monocots
	Commelinids
Order :	Sweet grass (Poales)
Family :	Sweet grasses (Poaceae)
Genre :	Panicum
Type :	Kutki millet
Scientific name
	Panicum sumatrense
	Roth ex Roem. & Schult.

Kutki millet or small millet ( Panicum sumatrense , syn .: Panicum miliare auct. Non Lam. ) Is a type of cereal and useful plant from the sweet grass family (Poaceae).

description

This type of cereal resembles the millet in habit , but is smaller. It is an annual herbaceous plant that grows upright or with bent stalks and reaches heights of 0.3 to 1 m. The leaves are linear, the blades sometimes hairy, with membranous ligules . The panicles are 4 to 15 cm long with 2 to 3.5 mm long awns. The caryopsis is round and smooth, brown, 1.8 to 1.9 mm long.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 36.

Systematics

According to R. Govaerts, Panicum sumatrense is Roth ex Roem. & Schult. a synonym of Panicum flexuosum Retz.

Two subspecies have been described:

Panicum sumatrense Roth ex Roem. & Schult. subsp. psilopodium (Trin.) De Wet
Panicum sumatrense Roth ex Roem. & Schult. subsp. sumatrense

Occurrence

In the temperate zones of Asia: Caucasus , China , East Asia as well as in the tropics of the continent: India , Indochina and Malaysia . The cultivation in India can reach up to 2000 m.

This type of grain is grown on the poorest soils in India and Sri Lanka and can withstand drought as well as waterlogging.

Cultivation and use

Larger growing areas are in central India. Usually the plant is grown in drill seeds. They can also be warped if necessary. Some of the green plants are also fed to livestock. The straw is used in combination with clay or cement for building purposes.

Grain yield: about 2.3 to 9 dt / ha.

Preparations

The millet grains are cooked like rice. Sometimes the millet is also ground and baked. The protein content in the grain is 7.7%.

literature

W. Franke, (1985): Nutzpflanzenkunde. Stuttgart.
Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7643-2390-6 .
VH Heywood: Flowering Plants of the World Basel-Boston-Stuttgart, 1978

Individual evidence

^ Tropicos. [1]
↑ Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Panicum - data sheet at World Checklist of Selected Plant Families of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on November 21, 2016.

Web links

Commons : Kutki millet ( Panicum sumatrense ) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Panicum sumatrense inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Mani, S., 2011. Retrieved April 8, 2014.

[Tropicos-1] Tropicos. [1]

[WCSP-2] Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Panicum - data sheet at World Checklist of Selected Plant Families of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on November 21, 2016.