Oryza grandiglumis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Poaceae |
Genus: | Oryza |
Species: | O. grandiglumis
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Binomial name | |
Oryza grandiglumis (Döll) Prodoehl
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Oryza grandiglumis is a type of wild rice of the genus Oryza[1] found in tropical countries of South- and Central- America,[2]: 6 namely Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Paraguay, Venezuela, and Peru. Discovered in 1998 in Caño Negro, in northern Costa Rica, it is an annual plant with short rhizomes; its culms can reach 790 centimetres (311 in) and are 4–9 millimetres (5⁄32–23⁄64 in) in thickness.[3] They have developed aerenchyma which allows them to float.[4]
Oryza grandiglumis is a tetraploid of 2n = 48.[2]: 6 It has a CCDD genome as with several others in the O. officinalis complex.[2]: 6