Species
Least ConcernAfrican rice
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderPoales
- FamilyPoaceae
Native toBenin, Burkina, Cameroon, Chad, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo
Observations7
Observations recorded19,055
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.
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Article · 中文
光稃稻（学名：Oryza glaberrima），又称非洲稻、非洲型稻、西非栽培稻，是人类种植的一种稻属作物。一般认为，光稃稻于两千至三千年前在尼日尔河上游，即今日马里一带得到驯化。 光稃稻为一年生作物。
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