Poaceae FAMILY

Oryza punctata

Edibility

1/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Oryza punctata is a clump-forming, annual or perennial grass with erect or semi-erect stems; it can grow from 50 - 120cm tall, occasionally to 150cm[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. , 308 Title Flora Zambesiaca Publication Author Website http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants. ]. Because they are a source of resistance to or tolerance of biotic and abiotic stresses, the most important use of the various species of wild rice is probably in breeding programmes to improve the species of cultivated rice (Oryza sativa, Oryza glaberrima). This species is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use of its seed, though it is seen mainly as a famine food for use when nothing better is available.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeTropical Africa - Cote D'Ivoire to Sudan, Uganda and Kenya, south through Tanzania to Zimbabwe, Swaziland and S. Africa, also in Madagascar.

HabitatSwampy locations, on stream banks, in pond margins and pools, seasonally inundated areas; the diploid form grows in open and semi-open areas, the triploid in semi-open and shaded; at elevations up to 1,200 metres[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ].