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Oryza punctata

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Name

Identification
Oryza punctata Kotschy ex Steud. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Oryza sativa L. [family POACEAE ] Oryza minuta J.Presl [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Oryza latifolia
  • Oryza officinalis
  • Oryza minuta
  • Oryza schweinfurthiana
  • Oryza sativa
  • Oryza brachyantha
  • Oryza mezii
  • Oryza punctata

Flora

Entry for ORYZA punctata Steud. [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part (Part 1), page 1, (1970) Author: W. D. Clayton
Names
ORYZA punctata Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 3 (1854); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 29 (1947); F.P.S. 3: 494 (1956); R.K.G.: 35 (1958); I.G.U.: 43 (1960); Tateoka in Bot. Mag. Tokyo 78: 156 (1965); G.T.: 49 (1965). Type: Sudan Republic, Blue Nile Province, Jebel Arashkol, Kotschy 136 (K, iso.!)
ORYZA schweinfurthiana Prod. [family POACEAE], in Bot. Archiv. 1: 231 (1922); F.P.S. 3: 494 (1956). Type: Congo Republic, Orientale, Nabambisso R., Schweinfurth 3691 (K, iso.!)
ORYZA eichingeri Peter var. longearistata [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1: 251, Anh.: 75 (1930). Type: Tanganyika, Tanga District, Putini–Amboni, Peter 46482 (B, holo. †)
Information
Annual. Culms erect, 60–120 cm. high, spongy, usually 4 mm. or more in diameter. Leaf-blades up to 30 cm. long and 1 cm. broad; ligule 3–10 mm. long, soft, whitish, splitting longitudinally when dried, glabrous. Panicle loose, with spreading branches. Spikelets elliptic, 4.9–6.2 mm. long and 1.9–2.6 mm. broad (2.5 times longer than broad), hispidulous; sterile lemmas acute, triangular; awn 1–7 cm. long, straight or somewhat flexuous, hispidulous. Fig. 10/1–3, p. 29.
Range
DISTR. U1, 2; K7; T1, 4, 6; P tropical Africa from Ivory Coast and Sudan Republic to Angola and Rhodesia
Altitude range
sea-level to 1200 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Mariakani, 25 Mar. 1928, H. Taylor 1211! & 17 Sept. 1961, Polhill & Paulo 484! & 16 km. NW. of Mariakani, 24 Jan. 1962, Bogdan 5428!TANGANYIKA Kwimba District Ngudu, 15 Nov. 1934, Staples 358! & 22 July 1935, Lewys Lloyd 3!TANGANYIKA Shinyanga District Ushola, 25 May 1931, B. D. Burtt 2545A!UGANDA Karamoja District Labwor, 4 June 1940, A. S. Thomas 3712!UGANDA Toro District Bwamba Forest, 2 Feb. 1945, Greenway & Eggeling 7064!ZANZIBAR Pemba I., Vitongoge, June 1928, Vaughan 209! & SW. of Pemba, Panza I., 13 Feb. 1929, Greenway 1405!
Distribution (external)
Madagascar
Thailand

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