Short Communication Old and new nomenclatural combinations for Echinochloa esculenta (Japanese millet) and E. frumentacea (Indian millet) (Poaceae) Author Banfi, Enrico Collaboratore Sezione di Botanica, Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano, Corso Venezia 55, 20121 Milano, Italia. E-mail: parajubaea @ gmail. com Author Galasso, Gabriele Sezione di Botanica, Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano, Corso Venezia 55, 20121 Milano, Italia. text Natural History Sciences 2021 2021-05-26 8 1 71 72 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2021.490 journal article 10.4081/nhs.2021.490 2385-0922 12754001 Echinochloa colona ( L .) Link subsp. edulis (Honda) Banfi & Galasso , comb. nov. Received for publication: 20 October 2020 bas.: Echinochloa crus-galli ( L .) P . Beauv. subsp. edulis Honda, J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo , Sect. 3, Bot. 3(1): 266. 1930 [ 4 Dec 1930 ] (Art. 58 of the ICN ) Accepted for publication: 25 November 2020 Online publication: 26 May 2021 ≡ Panicum frumentaceum Roxb., Fl. Ind. (Carey & Wallich ed.) 1: 307. 1820 [prob. Jan-Jun 1820], non Salisb. [1796], nom. illeg. (Art. 53 of the ICN ) ≡ Echinochloa frumentacea Link, Hort. Berol. [Link] 1: 204. 1827 [ 1 Oct-27 Nov 1827 ] ≡ Oplismenus frumentaceus (Link) Kunth, Révis. Gramin. 1(3): 45. 1829 [ Apr 1829 ] ≡ Panicum crus-galli L . var. frumentaceum (Link)Trimen, Syst. Cat. Fl. Pl. Ceylon : 104. 1885 [Jun_ Jul 1885 ] ≡ Echinochloa crus-galli ( L .) P .Beauv. var. frumentacea (Link) W.Wight, Century Dict. Cyclop. 12: 810. 1909 ≡ Echinochloa crus-galli ( L .) P .Beauv. var. edulis Hitchc., Bull. U.S.D.A. 772: 238. 1920 , nom. illeg. (Art. 52 of the ICN ) ≡ Echinochloa colona ( L .) Link var. frumentacea (Link) Ridl., Fl. Malay Penins. 5: 223. 1925 [ 1-6 Aug 1925 ] ≡ Panicum crus-galli L . var. edule Makino & Nemoto, Fl. Japan . (Makino & Nemoto): 1470. 1925, nom. illeg. (Art. 52 of the ICN ) – Echinochloa crus-galli ( L .) P .Beauv. var. frumentacea (Link) E.G.Camus & A.Camus [1922] , isonym – Panicum crus-galli L . var. edule Thell. ex B.de Lesd. [1934] , isonym Note : All these names are based on the illegitimate Panicum frumentaceum Roxb. , a later homonym of Panicum frumentaceum Salisb. According to Art. 11.2 of the ICN , a name has no priority outside the rank at which it is published. Therefore, the epithet frumentacea has priority at specific and varietal rank, while edulis at subspecific rank.