Taxon:  Oryza rufipogon Griff.



Summary
Genus:
Oryza
Section:
Oryza
Series:
Oryza
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Oryzoideae
Tribe:
Oryzeae
Subtribe:
Oryzinae
Nomen number:
26076
Place of publication:
Not. pl. asiat. 3:5; Icon. pl. asiat. 3: t. 144, fig. 2.  1851
Verified:
01/13/1992 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
22 (15  active, 8  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Oryza fatua J. Koenig ex Trin., nom. nud.
Oryza sativa L. var. fatua Prain

Images (3 total. Click on image for more.)
Embryo drawing

Conservation Status

Reference(s)
  1. University of Georgia Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health
  2. APHIS. Agricultural Risk Management System United States Department of Agriculture.
  3. Banaticla-Hilario, M. C. N. et al. 2013. Crossability patterns within and among Oryza series Sativae species from Asia and Australia. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 60:1899-1914.
  4. Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants. Florida state list aquatic & wetland noxious weeds - from Department of Environmental Protection (on-line resource).
  5. Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana. 6:221.
  6. Duistermaat, H. 1987. A revision of Oryza (Gramineae) in Malesia and Australia. Blumea 32:170.
  7. 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.
  8. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
  9. Grubben, G. J. H. & Soetjipto Partohardjono, eds. 1996. Cereals. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 10:106.
  10. 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.
  11. Huang, X. et al. 2012. A map of rice genome variation reveals the origin of cultivated rice. Nature 490:497-503. DOI: 10.1038/nature11532. Note: in a broad sense including perennial and annual (see O. nivara) populations
  12. Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
  13. Jin, J. et al. 2008. Genetic control of rice plant architecture under domestication. Nat. Genet. 40:1365-1369. DOI: 10.1038/ng.247. Note: this study recognized Oryza rufipogon as progenitor of rice, having a prostrate habit and wide tiller angle reducing photosynthetic efficiency, traits selected against during domestication; a chromosomal segment substitution lines were developed from crosses between an elite indica rice cultivat and a southern China O. rufipogon plants; F1 and F2 plants were morphologically similar to rice and showed a Mendeleian inheritance of these traits; the prostrate growth gene (PROG1) was located on chromosome 7, and it was protein sequenced showing its role as a transcription factor; it proposed that mutations of this gene in rice continue to be expressed in the same plant part, but with quantitative differences
  14. Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75 826.
  15. Li, R. et al. 2010. The evaluation and utilization of new genes for brown planthopper resistance in common wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.). Molec. Entomol. 1:pages 1-7. DOI: 10.5376/me.2010.01.0001.
  16. McCouch, S. R. et al. 2007. Through the genetic bottleneck: O. rufipogon as a source of trait-enhancing alleles for O. sativa . Euphytica 154:317-339. DOI: 10.1007/s10681-006-9210-8. Note: "Oryza rufipogon" accession IRGC 105491 may represent a mixture
  17. Moncada, P. et al. 2001. Quantitative trait loci for yield and yield components in an Oryza sativa × Oryza rufipogon BC2F2 population evaluated in an upland environment. Theor. Appl. Genet. 102:41-52.
  18. Morishima, H. 1984. Wild plants and domestication. In: Tsunoda, S. & N. Takahashi, eds., Biology of rice 6. Note: = Oryza perennis Moench
  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. Prathepha, P. 2008. Genetic variation of wild rice populations from Thailand and the Lao PDR based on molecular markers. Pakistan J. Biol. Sci. 11:26-33.
  22. 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).
  23. Septiningsih, E. M. et al. 2003. Identification of quantitative trait loci for yield and yield components in an advanced backcross population derived from the Oryza sativa variety IR64 and the wild relative O. rufipogon. Theor. Appl. Genet. 107:1419-1432. Note: "Oryza rufipogon" accession IRGC 105491 may represent a mixture
  24. Sharma, S. D. 2003. Nomenclatural confusions in genus Oryza. In: Nanda, J. S. & S. D. Sharma, eds., Monograph on Genus Oryza 355.
  25. Sharma, S. D. 2003. Species of genus Oryza and their interrelationships. In: Nanda, J. S. & S. D. Sharma, eds., Monograph on Genus Oryza 78, 100.
  26. Soerjani, M. et al., eds. 1987. Weeds of rice in Indonesia.
  27. Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 2004. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. 8:176-177. Note: Missouri Botanical Garden & Timber Press
  28. Tateoka, T. 1963. Taxonomic studies of Oryza. III. Key to the species and their enumeration. Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 76:169.
  29. Vandiver, V. V. et al. 1992. Discovery of Oryza rufipogon (Poaceae: Oryzeae), new to the United States, with its implications. Sida 15:105-110.
  30. Vaughan, D. A. 1989. The genus Oryza L. Current status of taxonomy. Int. Rice Res. Inst. Techn. Pap. 138:1-21.
  31. Vaughan, D. A. 2003. Revised key to species in genus Oryza. In: Nanda, J. S. & S. D. Sharma, eds., Monograph on Genus Oryza 348.
  32. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
  33. Zhang, X. et al. 2006. Identification of a drought tolerant introgression line derived from Dongxiang common wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.). Pl. Molec. Biol. 62:247-259.
  34. 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.
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).
Englishwild rice  1Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
Portuguese (Brazil)arroz-selvagem-vermelho  2Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Transcribed Chineseye sheng dao  2Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNoteReference
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaGuangdong Sheng Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaGuangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaHainan Sheng Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaYunnan Sheng Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
1NativeAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaTaiwan  Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentBangladesh  Duistermaat, H. 1987. A revision of Oryza (Gramineae) in Malesia and Australia. Blumea 32:170.
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia  Duistermaat, H. 1987. A revision of Oryza (Gramineae) in Malesia and Australia. Blumea 32:170.
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentSri Lanka  Duistermaat, H. 1987. A revision of Oryza (Gramineae) in Malesia and Australia. Blumea 32:170.
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaCambodia  Duistermaat, H. 1987. A revision of Oryza (Gramineae) in Malesia and Australia. Blumea 32:170.
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaLaos  Duistermaat, H. 1987. A revision of Oryza (Gramineae) in Malesia and Australia. Blumea 32:170.
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaMyanmar  Duistermaat, H. 1987. A revision of Oryza (Gramineae) in Malesia and Australia. Blumea 32:170.
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaThailand  Duistermaat, H. 1987. A revision of Oryza (Gramineae) in Malesia and Australia. Blumea 32:170.
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaVietnam  Duistermaat, H. 1987. A revision of Oryza (Gramineae) in Malesia and Australia. Blumea 32:170.
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesia  Duistermaat, H. 1987. A revision of Oryza (Gramineae) in Malesia and Australia. Blumea 32:170.
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaMalaysia  Duistermaat, H. 1987. A revision of Oryza (Gramineae) in Malesia and Australia. Blumea 32:170.
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaPhilippinesMindanao Duistermaat, H. 1987. A revision of Oryza (Gramineae) in Malesia and Australia. Blumea 32:170.
1NativeAsia-TropicalPapuasiaPapua New Guinea  Duistermaat, H. 1987. A revision of Oryza (Gramineae) in Malesia and Australia. Blumea 32:170.
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaNorthern Territory Duistermaat, H. 1987. A revision of Oryza (Gramineae) in Malesia and Australia. Blumea 32:170.
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaQueensland Duistermaat, H. 1987. A revision of Oryza (Gramineae) in Malesia and Australia. Blumea 32:170.
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaCentral AmericaCosta Rica  Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana. 6:221.
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaCentral AmericaHonduras  Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana. 6:221.
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaNorthern South AmericaVenezuelaApure Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 2004. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. 8:176-177. Note: Missouri Botanical Garden & Timber Press
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaNorthern South AmericaVenezuelaBarinas Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 2004. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. 8:176-177. Note: Missouri Botanical Garden & Timber Press
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaNorthern South AmericaVenezuelaBolívar Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 2004. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. 8:176-177. Note: Missouri Botanical Garden & Timber Press
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaNorthern South AmericaVenezuelaCojedes Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 2004. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. 8:176-177. Note: Missouri Botanical Garden & Timber Press
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaNorthern South AmericaVenezuelaDelta Amacuro Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 2004. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. 8:176-177. Note: Missouri Botanical Garden & Timber Press
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaNorthern South AmericaVenezuelaGuárico Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 2004. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. 8:176-177. Note: Missouri Botanical Garden & Timber Press
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaNorthern South AmericaVenezuelaPortuguesa Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 2004. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. 8:176-177. Note: Missouri Botanical Garden & Timber Press
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaWestern South AmericaColombia  Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 2004. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. 8:176-177. Note: Missouri Botanical Garden & Timber Press
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaWestern South AmericaEcuadorCotopaxi Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75 826.
Native
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China [Guangdong Sheng, Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu, Hainan Sheng, Yunnan Sheng]
  • EASTERN ASIA: Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka
  • PAPUASIA: Papua New Guinea
  • INDO-CHINA: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
  • MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines [Mindanao]
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia [Queensland, Northern Territory]
Naturalized
Southern America
  • CENTRAL AMERICA: Costa Rica, Honduras
  • NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Venezuela [Apure, Bolívar, Barinas, Cojedes, Guárico, Portuguesa, Delta Amacuro]
  • WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Colombia, Ecuador [Cotopaxi]

Reference(s)
  1. Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana. 6:221.
  2. Duistermaat, H. 1987. A revision of Oryza (Gramineae) in Malesia and Australia. Blumea 32:170.
  3. Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75 826.
  4. Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 2004. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. 8:176-177. Note: Missouri Botanical Garden & Timber Press
  5. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
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=26076. Accessed 17 April 2026.