      
Taxon: Coix lacryma-jobi L.
Genus: Coix
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Andropogoneae.
Nomen number: 11129
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:972. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 13-Oct-2000 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 13-Oct-2000
Species priority site is: North Central Regional PI Station (NC7).
Accessions:
16 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
See also subordinate taxa:
- adlay (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English
- adlay millet (Source: AH 505
) – English
- Job's-tears (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- yi mi (Source: F ChinaEng
) – Transcribed Chinese [Coix lacryma-jobi var. ma-yuen]
- yi yi (Source: F ChinaEng
) – Transcribed Chinese
- larmes de Job (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- Hiobsträne (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- hato-mugi (Source: Grass Japan
) – Japanese Rōmaji [Coix lacryma-jobi var. ma-yuen]
- juzudama (Source: F JapanOhwi
) – Japanese Rōmaji
- julmu (Source: Kulturpflanze
34:91. [as C. lacryma-jobi var. frumentacea]) – Transcribed Korean [Coix lacryma-jobi var. ma-yuen]
- lágrimas de Job (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- lágrimas de San Pedro (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- Jobs tårar (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish
- More:
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Native:
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
China: China
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
Indo-China: Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
Naturalized: - widely naturalized in tropics & subtropics
Cultivated: - cultivated in paleotropics
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
- Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson.
2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
- Bor, N. L.
1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan.
- Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
- Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds.
1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
- Encke, F. et al.
1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
- Hara, H. et al.
1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
- Hnatiuk, R. J.
1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
- Holttum, R. E. et al.
1953–1971. A revised flora of Malaya.
- Koyama, T.
1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions.
- Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster.
1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2.
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
- Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds.
1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
- Ohwi, J.
1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
- Shukla, U.
1996. Grasses of north-eastern India.
- Smith, R. J.
Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
- Terrell, E. E. et al.
1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505.
- Uphof, J. C. T.
1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
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Synonyms:
Check other web resources for Coix lacryma-jobi L.:
- Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
- TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
- CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
- World Grass Species-Descriptions:
Morphological species description from Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew
- Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- PROTABASE: Plant Resources of
Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
- ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
- Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed
citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
Images:
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
-
 Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be
inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?11129 (19 June 2013)
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