Monographs Details:
Authority:

Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.
Family:

Poaceae
Scientific Name:

Oryza
Description:

Description - Spikelets perfect, paniculate, laterally compressed; glumes minute; lemma and palea subindurate, papillose-roughened, the lemma awned (the awn sometimes obsolete).

Common Names:

rice