Taxon: Zea mays L. subsp. mays

See other conspecific taxa:

• Zea mays (446 accessions)
• Zea mays subsp. huehuetenangensis (7 accessions)
• Zea mays subsp. mexicana (108 accessions)
• Zea mays subsp. parviglumis (211 accessions)

Common names:

• corn   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• dent corn   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• field corn   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• flint corn   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• maize   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• pod corn   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• popcorn   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• sweet corn   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• dura shami   (Source: F Egypt ) – Arabic
  
• yu shu shu   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• maïs   (Source: L Noms French ed6 ) – French
  
• Mais   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• granoturco   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• mais   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• tō-morokoshi   (Source: Names Batra ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• gangnaengi   (Source: Kulturpflanze 34:134) – Transcribed Korean
  
• ogsusu   (Source: F Korea ) – Transcribed Korean
  
• milho   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• maíz   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• majs   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: sweetener   (fide CultTropS)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Econ Pl Aust)
  
• Human food: beverage base   (fide CultTropS, as Z. mays)
  
• Human food: oil/fat   (fide CultTropS, as Z. mays)
  
• Human food: starch   (fide CultTropS, as Z. mays)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (fide CultTropS, as Z. mays)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Pl Res SEAs 10:144. 1996)
  
• Fuels: petroleum substitute/alcohol   (fide N. El Bassam 1998)
  
• Materials: beads   (fide Bot Beads World; as web document)
  
• Materials: fiber   (fide Pl Res SEAs 10:144. 1996)
  
• Materials: lipids   (fide Pl Res SEAs 10:144. 1996)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2, as Z. mays; Herbs Commerce ed2, as Z. mays)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2; Kellerman et al.)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Zea mays subsp. mays from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

Distributional range:

• only cultivated

References:

• Batra, L. R. 1995. Names of Japanese plants sorted by their Japanese names in Romanized Katakana and scientific nomenclature.
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. [poisonous].
• Demilly, D. et al. 1996. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 6.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• El Bassam, N. 1998. Energy plant species. 18–49.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• 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). 10:143.
• Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. [poisonous].
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505.

Synonyms:

• (=) Zea curagua Molina
  
• (=) Zea indentata Sturtev.
  
• (=) Zea indurata Sturtev.
  (previously associated with 8 accessions)
• (=) Zea japonica Van Houtte
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Zea mays var. alba Alef.
  
• (=) Zea mays var. flavorubra Körn.
  
• (=) Zea mays var. indentata (Sturtev.) L. H. Bailey
  
• (=) Zea mays var. indurata (Sturtev.) L. H. Bailey
  
• (=) Zea mays var. japonica (Van Houtte) Alph. Wood
  
• (=) Zea mays var. leucodon Alef.
  
• (=) Zea mays var. saccharata (Sturtev.) L. H. Bailey
  
• (=) Zea mays var. tunicata Larrañaga ex A. St.-Hil.
  
• (=) Zea mays var. vulgata Körn. & H. Werner
  
• (=) Zea saccharata Sturtev.
  

Check other web resources for Zea mays L. subsp. mays:

• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Spikelets and/or florets: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

More:

• 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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