Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in Arabic:
Ruz Riz
Common Names in English:
Barth's Rice, African Wild Rice
Description
Physical Description
Habit: Graminoid
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 629 meters (0 to 2,064 feet).[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- (Auct.) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
()
- Auct.
- Class:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Juncanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Juncanae
(
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Oryza breviligulata A. Chev. and Roehr. • Oryza Glaberrima Barthii
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000
Similar Species
Members of the genus Oryza
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 10 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
O. barthii (Barth's Rice) · O. glaberrima (African Rice) · O. glutinosa (White Sticky Rice) · O. latifolia (Broadleaf Rice) · O. longistaminata (Long-Stamen Rice) · O. nivara (Weedy Rice) · O. punctata (Red Rice) · O. rufipogon (Brown-Beard Rice) · O. sativa (Burgundy Rice) · O. sativa rufipogon (Common Wild Rice)
More Info
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Further Reading
- Biosphere Reserves, Compilation 4, October 1986: programme on man and the biosphere (MAB) IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre url p. 88.
- Characteristics, classification, & adaptation of soils in selected areas in Sierra Leone, West Africa / R. T. Odell. .. [et al.]. Urbana: College of Agriculture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1974. url p. 12.
- Experiment station record. Washington: G.P.O., 1889-1946. url p. 408, p. 438, p. 975, p. 978.
- IUCN Directory of Afrotropical Protected Areas IUCN, UNEP url p. 1026, p. 88.
- Inventory of seeds and plants imported / U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1914-1924. url p. 55, p. 9.
- Pamphlets on silviculture. [1899- url p. 1437.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 26, 2007:
- Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
- International Plant Genetic Resources Institute(IPGRI), The System-wide Information Network for Genetic Resources
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2670606
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-506650
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13764234
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:410045-1
- GRIN Nomen Number: 402234
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 506650
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: ORBR4
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 52853
Footnotes
- Mean = -435.130 meters (-1,427.592 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,555.740 based on 209 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
