Oryza glaberrima

African rice

SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassLiliopsida
4. OrderPoales
5. FamilyPoaceae

Native toBenin, Burkina, Cameroon, Chad, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo

Observations7

Annual. Culms erect, spongy, up to 1 m tall. Leaf sheaths glabrous, leaf blades up to 30 × 1–1.5 cm, glabrous, margins scabrid; ligule 3–5 mm. Panicle loosely contracted, 20–25 cm; branches long, mostly simple. Spikelets obliquely inserted on pedicels, oblong, 7–9 mm, length twice width, yellow or dark brown, persistent; sterile lemmas lanceolate, 1.5–3 mm, margins sparsely ciliate, apex acuminate; fertile lemma smooth, glabrous or keel ciliate, apex with acute beak, usually awnless. Anthers ca. 1.5 mm. Caryopsis oblong, 5–6 mm. 2n = 24.

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