Coix
| Coix | |
|---|---|
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| Coix lacryma-jobi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| (unranked): | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
| Tribe: | Andropogoneae |
| Genus: | Coix L. |
| Type species | |
| Coix lacryma-jobi L.[1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Coix is a genus of Asian and Australian plants in the grass family.[3][4]
The best-known species is Coix lacryma-jobi, widely called Job's Tears. It is cultivated in many warm regions as a source of food, medicine, and ornamentation.[5][6]
- Coix aquatica Roxb. - China (Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi), Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, Peninsular Malaysia; naturalized in New Guinea
- Coix gasteenii B.K.Simon - northern Queensland
- Coix lacryma-jobi L. - China , Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia; naturalized in other parts of Asia as well as in southern Europe, Africa, the Americas, and various oceanic islands
- formerly included[2]
see Chionachne Polytoca Tripsacum
- Coix angulata - Tripsacum dactyloides
- Coix barbata - Chionachne gigantea
- Coix crypsoides - Chionachne gigantea
- Coix dactyloides - Tripsacum dactyloides
- Coix gigantea J.Koenig 1788 not J.Koenig ex Roxb. 1932 - Chionachne gigantea
- Coix heteroclita - Polytoca digitata
- Coix koenigii - Chionachne gigantea
- Coix sulcata - Chionachne punctata
References
- ↑ lectotype designated by Green, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 187 (1929)
- 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 972 in Latin
- ↑ Tropicos, Coix L.
- ↑ Hill,A.F. 1952. Economic Botany, McGraw-Hill
- ↑ Arora, R. K., 1977, "Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi) - a minor food and fodder crop of northeastern India." Economic Botany, Volume 31, issue 3, pages 358–366.
- ↑ The Plant List search for Coix
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