Oryza

Oryza
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Oryzoideae
Tribe: Oryzeae
Subtribe: Oryzinae
Genus: Oryza
L.
Type species
Oryza sativa
Synonyms[2]
  • Padia Moritzi
  • Porteresia Tateoka
  • Indoryza A.N.Henry & B.Roy

Oryza is a genus of plants in the grass family.[3][4] 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.[5]

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,[6] 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.[7][verification needed]

One species, Asian rice (O. sativa), provides 20% of global grain and is a food crop of major global importance. The species are divided into two subgroups within the genus.

  1. ^ lectotype designated by Duistermaat, Blumea 32: 174 (1987)
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference POWO was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 333. in Latin
  4. ^ "Tropicos | Name – Oryza L." www.tropicos.org. Retrieved 2016-09-14.
  5. ^ "Oryza in Flora of China @ efloras.org". www.efloras.org. Retrieved 2016-09-14.
  6. ^ Kellogg, E.A. (30 January 2009). "The Evolutionary History of Ehrhartoideae, Oryzeae, and Oryza". Rice. 2 (1): 1–14. Bibcode:2009Rice....2....1K. doi:10.1007/s12284-009-9022-2.
  7. ^ Heywood, V.H. Flowering Plants of the World 1993 Oxford University Press

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