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Oryza ridleyi Hook. f.
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Explanations
- Genome designation
- HHJJ
- Chromosome number
- Tetraploid, 2n=48
- Distribution
- Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Thailand
- Key characteristics
- Flexuous sterile lemma distinctly shorter than spikelet., Spikelet 7-8mm long and 1.8-2.2mm wide with trichomes in rows down its length. Palea and lemma papery. Awn about 1cm. 1-2m tall. Stolons well developed.
- Habitat
- Always in shade or semi shade of primary or well developed secondary forest. Found in swamps or close to large rivers that seasonally inundate the forest floor sometimes to considerable depth.
- Potentially useful traits
- Stemborer resistance recorded.
- Notes
- This species is quite common in flooded forests often beside large rivers. In some area such as the Sepik River and around the Chambri Lakes of Papua New Guinea populations are highly sterile and affected by insect pests.
- References
- Duistermaat, H. 1987. A revision of Oryza (Graminae) in Malaysia and Australia. Blumea 32: 157-193
- Naredo, M.E.B., A.B. Juliano, B.R. Lu and M.T. Jackson. 2003. The taxonomic status of the wild rice species Oryza ridleyi Hook. f. and O. longiglumis Jansen (Ser. Ridleyanae Sharma and Shastry) from Southeast Asia. Crop Genetic Resources and Evolution 50: 477-488
- Tateoka, T. 1962. Taxonomic studies of Oryza II. Several species complexes. Bot. Mag. Tokyo. 75:455-461
