Taxon:  Oryza longistaminata A. Chev. & Roehr.



Summary
Genus:
Oryza
Section:
Oryza
Series:
Oryza
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Oryzoideae
Tribe:
Oryzeae
Subtribe:
Oryzinae
Nomen number:
26067
Place of publication:
Compt. Rend. Hebd. Séances Acad. Sci. 159:561.  1914
Verified:
03/31/2009 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
8 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Oryza silvestris Stapf ex A. Chev.

Invalid Designation(s)
Oryza barthii auct. nonn.
Images (1 total. Click on image for more.)
Disseminule drawings\; A: Floret; B: caryopsis

Conservation Status

Reference(s)
  1. University of Georgia Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health
  2. PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
  3. APHIS. Agricultural Risk Management System United States Department of Agriculture.
  4. Brar, D. S. & G. S. Khush. 2002. Chapter 14. Transferring genes from wild species into rice. In: Kang, M. S., ed., Quantitative genetics, genomics, and plant breeding 197-218. Note: CABI Publishing.
  5. Brondani, C. et al. 2003. Transferability of microsatellite and sequence tagged site markers in Oryza species. Hereditas (Beijing) 138:187-192.
  6. Clayton, W. D. 1968. Studies in the Gramineae: XVII. Kew Bull. 21:488.
  7. Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
  8. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
  9. Gaikwad, K. B. et al. 2021. Development of wild relatives for genetic improvement in rice (Oryza sativa). Pl. Breed. (New York) 140:23-52. DOI: 10.1111/pbr.12875.
  10. Ge, S. et al. 1999. Phylogeny of rice genomes with emphasis on origins of allotetraploid species. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96:14400-14405.
  11. Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58
  12. Hilu, K. W. & L. V. Sharova. 2002. Evolutionary implications of substitution patterns in prolamin genes of Oryza glaberrima (African rice, Poaceae) and related species. Amer. J. Bot. 89:211-219.
  13. Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds
  14. Jena, K. K. 2010. The species of the genus Oryza and transfer of useful genes from wild species into cultivated rice, O. sativa. Breed. Sci. 60:518-523.
  15. Johnson, D. E. et al. 2004. Timing of weed management and yield losses due to weeds in irrigated rice in the Sahel. Field Crops Res. 85:31-42. DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4290(03)00124-2.
  16. Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953-1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
  17. Morishima, H. 1984. Wild plants and domestication. In: Tsunoda, S. & N. Takahashi, eds., Biology of rice 6. Note: = Oryza perennis Moench
  18. Ndjiondjop, M. N. et al. 2018. Oryza longistaminata A. Chev. and Röhr. In: Mondal, T. K. & R. J. Henry, The Wild Oryza genomes 165-176. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-71997-9_15.
  19. Plant Protection and Quarantine Office. United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Federal noxious weed list (on-line resource).
  20. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  21. Seed Regulatory and Testing Division, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act (updated annually).
  22. Sharma, S. D. 2003. Nomenclatural confusions in genus Oryza. In: Nanda, J. S. & S. D. Sharma, eds., Monograph on Genus Oryza 354.
  23. Sharma, S. D. 2003. Species of genus Oryza and their interrelationships. In: Nanda, J. S. & S. D. Sharma, eds., Monograph on Genus Oryza 80.
  24. Sweeney, M. & S. McCouch. 2007. The complex history of the domestication of rice. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 100:951-957. Note: this review summarizes what is known about Oryza glaberrima & O. sativa domestication, it cites this taxon
  25. Tateoka, T. 1963. Taxonomic studies of Oryza. III. Key to the species and their enumeration. Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 76:169. Note: = Oryza barthii A. Chev.
  26. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952-. Flora of tropical East Africa.
  27. Vaughan, D. A. 1989. The genus Oryza L. Current status of taxonomy. Int. Rice Res. Inst. Techn. Pap. 138:1-21.
  28. Vaughan, D. A. 2003. Diversity in the Oryza genus. Curr. Opin. Pl. Biol. 6:140.
  29. Vaughan, D. A. 2003. Revised key to species in genus Oryza. In: Nanda, J. S. & S. D. Sharma, eds., Monograph on Genus Oryza 348.
  30. Zhu, Q. & S. Ge. 2005. Phylogenetic relationships among A-genome species of the genus Oryza revealed by intron sequences of four nuclear genes. New Phytol. 167:249-265.
  31. Zhu, T. et al. 2014. Phylogenetic relationships and genome divergence among the AA-genome species of the genus Oryza as revealed by 53 nuclear genes and 16 intergeneric regions. Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 70:348-361.
  32. Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun
Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishred rice  1Seed Regulatory and Testing Division, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act (updated annually).
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNoteReference
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaKenya  Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaTanzania  Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaUganda  Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaSudan  Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaAngola  PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaMalawi  Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaMozambique  Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaZambia  Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaZimbabwe  Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaBotswana  PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaNamibia n.PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth AfricaTransvaal PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaCôte D'Ivoire  Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGhana  Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGuinea  Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaLiberia  Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaMali  Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaNigeria  Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaSenegal  Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaSierra Leone  Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaCameroon  Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaDemocratic Republic of the Congo  Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaGabon  Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
1NativeAfricaWestern Indian OceanMadagascar  Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
Native
Africa
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Sudan
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
  • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon
  • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Côte D'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone
  • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Namibia (n.), South Africa [Transvaal]
  • WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Madagascar

Reference(s)
  1. PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
  2. Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Animal foodforagewhen juvenileZon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun
Weed  Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds
Weed  Johnson, D. E. et al. 2004. Timing of weed management and yield losses due to weeds in irrigated rice in the Sahel. Field Crops Res. 85:31-42. DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4290(03)00124-2.
Weed forms weedy hybrids with cultivated riceVaughan, D. A. 1989. The genus Oryza L. Current status of taxonomy. Int. Rice Res. Inst. Techn. Pap. 138:1-21.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://npgstest.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=26067. Accessed 15 April 2026.