Taxon: Saccharum spontaneum L.
Genus: Saccharum
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Andropogoneae.
Nomen number: 32625
Place of publication: Mant. pl. 2:183. 1771
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 02-Jul-2009 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 02-Jul-2009
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA). Accessions:
671 in National Plant Germplasm System.
SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE FEDERAL AND STATE NOXIOUS
WEED
- 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:
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FL*, MA*, NC*, PR*.
| ªAquatic.
| *Terrestrial.
| °In seed.
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- Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:
- African fodder cane (Source: Pl Names
) – English [Saccharum spontaneum subsp. aegyptiacum]
- Asian fodder cane (Source: Pl Names
) – English [Saccharum spontaneum subsp. spontaneum]
- fodder cane (Source: Pl Names
) – English
- wild sugarcane (Source: State Noxweed Seed
) – English
- More:
- Harmful organism host: crop diseases; crop pests (fide WorldWeeds 697. 1997)
- Environmental: revegetator; potential for erosion control (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:195. 1992)
- Gene sources: disease resistance; secondary genetic relative of sugarcane (fide Pl Res SEAs 9:145. 1996)
- Medicines: folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
- Weed: also potential seed contaminant (fide Atlas WWeed)
Native:
- AFRICA
Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon [n.] West Tropical Africa: Burkina Faso; Ghana; Nigeria South Tropical Africa: Malawi
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Saudi Arabia Western Asia: Afghanistan; Israel; Lebanon Middle Asia: Turkmenistan China: China - Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang Eastern Asia: Japan; Taiwan
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; Bhutan; India - Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka Indo-China: Cambodia; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
- EUROPE
Southeastern Europe: Italy - Sicily
Naturalized: - naturalized elsewhere, including Mesoamerica
- 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds.
1992. Forages.
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs)
4:195.
- Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds.
1976–. Flora of Libya. (F Libya)
- Babu, C. R.
1977. Herbaceous flora of Dehra Dun. (HF Dehra Dun)
- Berding, N. & B. T. Roach.
1987. Chapter 4. Germplasm collection, maintenance, and use. IN: Heinz, D. (ed.). Sugarcane improvement through breeding.
Developments in Crop Science (Developm Crop Sci)
143–210. [provided information that this taxon was used extensively for increasing genetic diversity in sugarcane, noting the difficulties of gene transfer during nobilization].
- Bhandari, M. M.
1978. Flora of the Indian desert. (F IndDes)
- Bor, N. L.
1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. (Grass BCIP)
- Boulos, L.
1999–. Flora of Egypt. (F Egypt)
- Daniels, J. et al.
1991. The taxonomic status of Saccharum barberi Jeswiet and S. sinense Roxb.
Sugar Cane
1991:11–16.
- Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds.
1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
- Erhardt, W. et al.
2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
- Exell, A. W. et al., eds.
1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
- Ghazanfar, S. A.
1992. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2. (L Oman)
- Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long.
1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. (F Bhutan)
- Grivet, L. et al.
2004. A review of recent molecular genetics evidence for sugarcane evolution and domestication.
Ethnobot. Res. Applic.
2:9–17. [cites for this taxon 2n=40-128, with a basic number of x=8, commenting that modern cultivars were derived from crosses between this taxon & traditional sugarcane cultivars; crosses with S. officinarum occur].
- Hara, H. et al.
1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
- Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards.
1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000) (F Ethiop)
- Holm, L. et al.
1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
- How, F. C., ed.
1956. Flora of Kwangchow. (F Guangd)
- Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper.
1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
- Koyama, T.
1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions. (Grass Japan)
- Matthew, K. M.
1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic. (F TamilC)
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
- Migahid, A. M.
1988–1990. Flora of Saudi Arabia, ed. 3. (F Saudi ed3)
- Mouterde, P.
1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban)
- Mukherjee, S. K.
1954. Bull. Bot. Soc. Bengal
8:145.
- Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds.
1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
- Price, S.
1957. Cytological studies in Saccharum and allied genera. III. Chromosome numbers in interspecific hybrids.
Bot. Gaz.
118:146–159. [this study reported crosses between this taxon as paternal donor with S. officinarum & S. spontaneum resulting in hybrids either n+n or 2n+n respectively].
- Quézel, P. & S. Santa.
1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie. (F Alger)
- Rechinger, K. H., ed.
1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
- 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. (State Noxweed Seed)
- Shukla, U.
1996. Grasses of north-eastern India. (Grass NE India)
- Takahashi, S. et al.
2005. Very close relationship of the chloroplast genomes among Saccharum species.
Theor. Appl. Genet.
110:1523–1529. [based on complete chloroplast genome sequences a phylogeny of the genus was built using Zea as the outgroup; this taxon w. high levels of intraspecific variation supports interpretation as the basal species in the genus].
- Thulin, M., ed.
1993–. Flora of Somalia. (F Somalia)
- Turrill, W. B. et al., eds.
1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
- Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
- Tzvelev, N. N.
1976. Zlaki SSSR. (Grass USSR)
- Whalen, M. D.
1991. Baileya
23:112.
- Wood, J. R. I.
1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen. (F Yemen)
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
- Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan.
1966–. Flora palaestina. (F Palest)
- Zon, A. P. M. van der.
1992. Graminées du Cameroun. (Grass Camer)
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other databases for Saccharum spontaneum L.:
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Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
- 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
- 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:
- More:
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inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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