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|accepted_name=Coix
|accepted_authority=L.
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae;Coix
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Coix]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 703
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual or perennial; monoecious, pistillate and staminate spikelets on separate rames in the same inflorescence. <b>Culms</b> to 3 m, erect, creeping, or floating, branched; internodes solid. <b>Leaves</b> not aromatic; ligules membranous. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, of 2(3) rames, 1 pistillate, the other(s) staminate, pistillate rames completely enclosed in indurate, globose to cylindric, modified leaf sheaths, termed involucres, from which the staminate rames protrude. <b>Pistillate</b> rames each with 3 spikelets, 1 sessile and pistillate, the other 2 pedicellate and rudimentary; sessile spikelets somewhat dorsally compressed; glumes coriaceous, beaked; stigmas protruding from the involucres. <b>Caryopses</b> more or less globose. <b>Staminate</b> rames flexible, exserted from the involucre; spikelets in pairs or triplets, 1 sessile, the other(s) pedicellate, reduced, or absent; lower glumes chartaceous, with 15 or more veins, 2-keeled, keels winged above; upper glumes similar, with 1 keel; lower florets sometimes sterile; upper florets staminate; stamens 0 or 3; lodicules 2. <b>Pedicels</b> not fused to the rame axes, x = 5.</span><!--

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|distribution=N.J.;Puerto Rico;Virgin Islands;Pa.;Tex.;Ohio;La.;Tenn.;N.Y.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii)
|discussion=<p><i>Coix</i> is a genus of about five species, one of which has been introduced into the Flora region. All the species are native to tropical Asia, where <i>C. lacryma-jobi</i> and, to a lesser extent, <i>C. gigantea</i> are harvested for food.</p>
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|id=jain1974a
|text=Jain, S.K. and D.K. Banerjee. 1974. Preliminary observations on the ethnobotany of the genus Coix. Econ. Bot. 28:38-42
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|id=watt1904a
|text=Watt, G. 1904. Coix spp. or Job's tears: A review of all available information. Agric. Ledger 13:189-229.
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name=Coix
|author=John W. Thieret;
|authority=L.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=N.J.;Puerto Rico;Virgin Islands;Pa.;Tex.;Ohio;La.;Tenn.;N.Y.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii)
|reference=jain1974a;watt1904a
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae
|genus=Coix
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