Taxon: Oryza sativa L.

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:

AR(only red rice when in rice seed)*°, FL(only red rice)°, LA(only red rice)°, SC(only red rice)°, TX(only red rice)°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• Asian rice   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  
• lowland rice   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  
• rice   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• upland rice   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  
• dao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• riz   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Reis   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• chavel   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – India
  
• riso   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• ine   (Source: Names Batra ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• arroz   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• arroz   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: beverage base; cereal; oil/fat; starch   (fide CultTropS; Pl Res SEAs 10:107. 1996)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (husks & polishings important as cattle food fide Pl Book)
  
• Materials: fiber; lipids   (for papermaking fide CultTropS; Pl Res SEAs 10:107. 1996, for soap)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide WorldWeeds 531-547. 1997)
  

More:

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

      Cultivated:

• cultivated throughout tropic, subtropic, & warm-temperate regions

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
• Batra, L. R. 1995. Names of Japanese plants sorted by their Japanese names in Romanized Katakana and scientific nomenclature. (Names Batra)
• Duistermaat, H. 1987. A revision of Oryza (Gramineae) in Malesia and Australia. Blumea 32:174.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986–. Flora of the Guianas. (F Guianas)
• Grubben, G. J. H. & S. Partohardjono, eds. 1996. Cereals. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 10:106–115.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. (Mansf Ency)
• Holm, L. et al. 1997. World weeds: natural histories and distribution. (WorldWeeds)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Sharma, S. D. 2003. Species of genus Oryza and their interrelationships. In: Nanda, J. S. & S. D. Sharma, eds., Monograph on Genus Oryza. (Monog Oryza) 75, 93, 100.
• Tateoka, T. 1963. Taxonomic studies of Oryza. III. Key to the species and their enumeration. Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 76:168.
• Tsunoda, S. & N. Takahashi, eds. 1984. Biology of rice. (Biol Rice)
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
• Vaughan, D. A. 1989. The genus Oryza L. Current status of taxonomy. Int. Rice Res. Inst. Techn. Pap. 138:17.
• Vaughan, D. A. 2003. Revised key to species in genus Oryza. In: Nanda, J. S. & S. D. Sharma, eds., Monograph on Genus Oryza. (Monog Oryza) 347.
• Westphal, E. & P. C. M. Jansen, eds. 1989. A selection. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) A:206.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Oryza sativa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Oryza sativa. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Oryza glutinosa Lour.
  (previously associated with 15 accessions)
• (=) Oryza sativa var. affinis Körn.
  
• (=) Oryza sativa var. erythroceros Körn.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Oryza sativa var. flavoacies Kara-Murza ex Zhuk.
  
• (=) Oryza sativa subsp. indica Kato
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Oryza sativa cv. italica Alef.
  
• (=) Oryza sativa subsp. japonica auct.
  
• (=) Oryza sativa var. japonica auct.
  
• (=) Oryza sativa var. melanacra Körn.
  
• (=) Oryza sativa var. suberythroceros Kanevsk
  
• (=) Oryza sativa var. vulgaris Körn.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Oryza sativa var. zeravschanica Brches ex Katzaroff, nom. nud.
  

Check other databases for Oryza sativa L.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Spikelets: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
• Spikelets and caryopsis: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and caryopsis: 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.

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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?26077 (09 February 2010)

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