PoaceaeSubfamily Bambusoideae
Tribe Bambuseae
Subfamily Bambusoideae
Tribe Oryzeae
Subfamily Chloridoideae
Tribe Chloridoid Assemblage
Subfamily Panicoideae
Tribe Andropogoneae
Subfamily Panicoideae
Tribe Maydeae
Subfamily Panicoideae
Tribe Paniceae
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Zea mexicana (Schrad.) Reeves & Mangel
- Query IPNI
- Common Name: Teosinte
- Family: Poaceae Barnh.
- Country of Origin: Mexico
- Habitat:
- Description: [syn. Euchlaena mexicana Schrad.]
Annual, stems to 10 or rarely 15 feet, coarse, branching at base, flattened on one side between the dark-colored fruiting nodes; leaf blades sword-shaped, long-pointed, to 3.25 inches wide, midrib prominent, sheaths expanded, very strongly veined; female spikelets solitary on opposite sides of obliquely articulate rachis, first glume hard, covering the cavity, second glume membranous, lemma hyaline; grains about /25 inches long, glossy, with markings resembling and insect pupa on the face. Mexico Closely related to and resembling Z. Mays, with which it readily hybridizes. Thought to be one of the progenitors of modern corn.
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 Accession Data:- Accession # 198501220
- Source: Unknown
- Accession Date: 12-31-1985
- Bench: 1314 - Euphorbiaceae
- Qty: 2 confirmed on 05-06-2008
Classification:- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: commelinids
- Order: Poales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Poaceae
- SubFamily: Panicoideae
- Tribe: Maydeae
- SubTribe:
References:Hortus Third, LHJ Bailey Hortorium, 1976
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