Oryza barthii
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Genus: | Oryza |
| Species: | O. barthii
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Oryza barthii, also called Barth's rice,[2] wild rice,[3] or African wild rice,[4] is a grass in the rice genus Oryza. It is an annual, erect to semierect grass. It has leaves with a short ligule (<13 mm), and panicles that are compact to open, rarely having secondary branching. The inflorescence structure are large spikelets, 7.7-12.3 mm long and 2.3-3.5 mm wide, with strong awns (up to 20 cm long), usually red. The inflorescences have anthers 1.5–3 mm long.
This wild rice grows in sub-Saharan Africa, and is found in mopane or savanna woodland, savanna or fadama. O. barthii grows in deep water, seasonally flooded land, stagnant water, and slowly flowing water or pools; it prefers clay or black cotton soils, and is found in open habitats.[5] It is the progenitor of cultivated Oryza glaberrima, African rice.[6]
The sequenced genome of O. barthii was published in 2014.[7]
References
- ^ "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species".
- ^ NRCS. "Oryza barthii". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 25 July 2015.
- ^ "Oryza barthii". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ "NCBI Taxonomy".
- ^ Rice Knowledge Bank, Wild Rice Taxonomic information, accessed 12.18.2007. [1] Archived March 13, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Linares 2002, African rice (Oryza glaberrima): History and future potential PNAS 99:16360-16365.
- ^ Zhang, QJ.; Zhu, T.; Xia, EH.; Shi, C.; Liu, YL.; Zhang, Y.; Liu, Y.; Jiang, WK.; et al. (Nov 2014). "Rapid diversification of five Oryza AA genomes associated with rice adaptation". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 111 (46): E4954–E4962. doi:10.1073/pnas.1418307111. PMC 4246335. PMID 25368197.
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