Difference between revisions of "Coix"
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|distribution=N.J.;Puerto Rico;Virgin Islands;Pa.;Tex.;Ohio;La.;Tenn.;N.Y.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii) | |distribution=N.J.;Puerto Rico;Virgin Islands;Pa.;Tex.;Ohio;La.;Tenn.;N.Y.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii) | ||
| − | |discussion=<p>Coix 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 C. lacryma-jobi and, to a lesser extent, C. gigantea are harvested for food.</p> | + | |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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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae | |subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae | ||
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Latest revision as of 17:58, 11 May 2021
Plants annual or perennial; monoecious, pistillate and staminate spikelets on separate rames in the same inflorescence. Culms to 3 m, erect, creeping, or floating, branched; internodes solid. Leaves not aromatic; ligules membranous. Inflorescences 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. Pistillate 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. Caryopses more or less globose. Staminate 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. Pedicels not fused to the rame axes, x = 5.
Distribution
N.J., Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Pa., Tex., Ohio, La., Tenn., N.Y., Pacific Islands (Hawaii)
Discussion
Coix 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 C. lacryma-jobi and, to a lesser extent, C. gigantea are harvested for food.