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Genus: Zea
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Andropogoneae.
Nomen number: 42207
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:971. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 28-Oct-2009 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 28-Oct-2009
Species priority site is: North Central Regional PI Station (NC7). Alternate site is: Maize Genetic Stock Center (GSZE).
Accessions:
19 in National Plant Germplasm System.
See also subordinate taxa:
- Balsas teosinte (Source: Amer J Bot
67:984.) – English [Zea mays subsp. parviglumis]
- Central-plateau teosinte (Source: F NAmer
) – English [Zea mays subsp. mexicana]
- Chalco teosinte (Source: F NAmer
) – English [Zea mays subsp. mexicana]
- corn (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English [Zea mays subsp. mays]
- dent corn (Source: AH 505
) – English [Zea mays subsp. mays]
- Durango teosinte (Source: Amer J Bot
67:1001.) – English [Zea mays subsp. mexicana]
- field corn (Source: AH 505
) – English [Zea mays subsp. mays]
- flint corn (Source: AH 505
) – English [Zea mays subsp. mays]
- Guerrero teosinte (Source: F NAmer
) – English [Zea mays subsp. parviglumis]
- Huehuetenango teosinte (Source: Amer J Bot
67:998.) – English [Zea mays subsp. huehuetenangensis]
- maize (Source: BSBI
) – English
- maize (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English [Zea mays subsp. mays]
- Mexican teosinte (Source: NRCS Cons Pl Mat
[as Z. mexicana]) – English [Zea mays subsp. mexicana]
- nobogame teosinte (Source: F NAmer
) – English [Zea mays subsp. mexicana]
- pod corn (Source: AH 505
) – English [Zea mays subsp. mays]
- popcorn (Source: AH 505
) – English [Zea mays subsp. mays]
- rayana grass (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English [Zea mays subsp. mexicana]
- San Antonio Huista teosinte (Source: Amer J Bot
67:1002.) – English [Zea mays subsp. huehuetenangensis]
- sweet corn (Source: AH 505
) – English [Zea mays subsp. mays]
- maïs (Source: L Noms French ed6
) – French [Zea mays subsp. mays]
- téosinte (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French [Zea mays subsp. mexicana]
- Mais (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German [Zea mays subsp. mays]
- Teosinte (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German [Zea mays subsp. mexicana]
- to-morokoshi (Source: Names Batra
) – Japanese Rōmaji [Zea mays subsp. mays]
- milho (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese [Zea mays subsp. mays]
- teosinto (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil) [Zea mays subsp. mexicana]
- teosinto-de-Guatemala (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil) [Zea mays subsp. mexicana]
- maíz (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish [Zea mays subsp. mays]
- maíz silvestre (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish [Zea mays subsp. mexicana]
- More:
- More:
Native:
- NORTHERN AMERICA
Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Durango
Central Mexico: Mexico - Guanajuato, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Mesoamerica: Guatemala
Cultivated:
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
- Botanical Society of the British Isles.
2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
- Doebley, J. F. & H. H. Iltis.
1980. Taxonomy of Zea (Gramineae) I subspecific classification with key to taxa.
Amer. J. Bot.
67:982–1004.
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
- Nair, N. V. et al.
2006. Characterization of intergeneric hybrids of Saccharum using molecular markers.
Genet. Resources Crop Evol.
53:163–169. [tested the use of RAPD markers to identify genuine hybrids, it verified hybridization between Saccharum officinarum & this taxon. All hybrids were phenotypically closer to Saccharum since it contributes the major part of the genome].
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other databases for Zea mays L.:
- 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.
Note: Defaults to a search by genus
or species epithet if species binomial not found.
Images:
- Seed: 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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Cite as:
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?42207 (09 February 2010)
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