Taxon: Oryza rufipogon Griff.

A declared noxious weed by USDA-APHIS.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

AL*, CA*, FLª*, GA°, MA*, NC*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• red rice   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  
• wild rice   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• ye sheng dao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• arroz-selvagem-vermelho   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Gene sources: crop quality for rice   (fide Breed Sci 60:520. 2010)
  
• Gene sources: disease resistance for rice   (to aluminum fide Breed Sci 60:520. 2010)
  
• Gene sources: high yields for rice   (fide Breed Sci 60:520. 2010)
  
• Gene sources: metal tolerance for rice   (to aluminum fide Breed Sci 60:520. 2010)
  
• Gene sources: primary genetic relative of rice   (based on genome (AA carrier) constitution & crossability with rice fide Proc Natl Acad Sci 96:14404. 1999; Curr Opinion Biol 6:140. 2003)
  
• Gene sources: probable progenitor of rice   (based on genome (AA carrier) constitution & crossability with rice fide Proc Natl Acad Sci 96:14404. 1999; Curr Opinion Biol 6:140. 2003)
  
• Gene sources: salt tolerance for rice   (fide Pl Res SEAs 10:106. 1996)
  
• Weed   (forms weedy hybrids with cultivated rice fide IRRI Pap. 138:11. 1989; Weeds of rice in Indonesia)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; India; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines - Mindanao
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Northern Territory, Queensland

References:

• Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants. Florida state list aquatic & wetland noxious weeds - from Department of Environmental Protection (on-line resource).
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• Duistermaat, H. 1987. A revision of Oryza (Gramineae) in Malesia and Australia. Blumea 32:170.
• Ge, S. et al. 1999. Phylogeny of rice genomes with emphasis on origins of allotetraploid species. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96:14400–14405.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Grubben, G. J. H. & Soetjipto Partohardjono, eds. 1996. Cereals. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 10:106.
• Hilu, K. W. & L. V. Sharova. 2002. Evolutionary implications of substitution patterns in prolamin genes of Oryza glaberrima (African rice, Poaceae) and related species. Amer. J. Bot. 89:211–219.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Morishima, H. 1984. Wild plants and domestication. In: Tsunoda, S. & N. Takahashi, eds., Biology of rice. 6. [= O. perennis Moench].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Prathepha, P. 2008. Genetic variation of wild rice populations from Thailand and the Lao PDR based on molecular markers. Pakistan J. Biol. Sci. 11:26–33.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Sharma, S. D. 2003. Nomenclatural confusions in genus Oryza. In: Nanda, J. S. & S. D. Sharma, eds., Monograph on Genus Oryza. 355.
• Sharma, S. D. 2003. Species of genus Oryza and their interrelationships. In: Nanda, J. S. & S. D. Sharma, eds., Monograph on Genus Oryza. 78, 100.
• Soerjani, M. et al., eds. 1987. Weeds of rice in Indonesia.
• Tateoka, T. 1963. Taxonomic studies of Oryza. III. Key to the species and their enumeration. Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 76:169.
• Vandiver, V. V. et al. 1992. Discovery of Oryza rufipogon (Poaceae: Oryzeae), new to the United States, with its implications. Sida 15:105–110.
• Vaughan, D. A. 1989. The genus Oryza L. Current status of taxonomy. Int. Rice Res. Inst. Techn. Pap. 138:10, 17.
• Vaughan, D. A. 2003. Revised key to species in genus Oryza. In: Nanda, J. S. & S. D. Sharma, eds., Monograph on Genus Oryza. 348.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zhu, Q. & S. Ge. 2005. Phylogenetic relationships among A-genome species of the genus Oryza revealed by intron sequences of four nuclear genes. New Phytol. 167:249–265.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Oryza rufipogon.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Oryza rufipogon.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Oryza rufipogon.

Synonyms:

• (=) "Oryza fatua J. Koenig ex Trin., nom. nud."
  
• (=) Oryza sativa var. fatua Prain
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Oryza rufipogon Griff.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AusGrass2: Australian grass data from Bryan K. Simon’s on-line database
• 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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