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Rice
Oryza
Oryza is a genus of plants in the grass family. It includes the major food crop rice (species Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima). Members of the genus grow as tall, wetland grasses, growing to 1–2 metres (3–7 ft) tall; the genus includes both annual and perennial species.
Oryza is situated in tribe Oryzeae, which is characterized morphologically by its single-flowered spikelets whose glumes are almost completely suppressed. In Oryza, two sterile lemma simulate glumes. The tribe Oryzeae is in subfamily Ehrhartoideae, a group of Poaceae tribes with certain features of internal leaf anatomy in common. The most distinctive leaf characteristics of this subfamily are the arm cells and fusoid cells found in their leaves.
18 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Asian Rice
speciesOryza sativa
Brownbeard rice
speciesOryza rufipogon
Rice Grass
speciesOryza longistaminata
Oryza latifolia
speciesOryza latifolia
Oryza australiensis
speciesOryza australiensis
African rice
speciesOryza glaberrima
Oryza neocaledonica
speciesOryza neocaledonica
Oryza barthii
speciesOryza barthii
Oryza officinalis
speciesOryza officinalis
Oryza brachyantha
speciesOryza brachyantha
Oryza coarctata
speciesOryza coarctata
Oryza punctata
speciesOryza punctata
Oryza meyeriana
speciesOryza meyeriana
Oryza ridleyi
speciesOryza ridleyi
Oryza eichingeri
speciesOryza eichingeri
Oryza grandiglumis
speciesOryza grandiglumis
Oryza schlechteri
speciesOryza schlechteri
Oryza minuta
speciesOryza minuta
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.365
Garden of Health
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.365
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.373
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.358
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.573
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.521
Elements of Botany
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort · 1719 · p.47
Zhiwu Mingshi Tukao (Vol. 1)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.69
飲膳正要(三) (vol 3)
(元)忽思慧撰 · n.d. · p.2
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.98
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 61382.