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Oryza indandamanica
Distribution
Distribution
Explanations
- Genome designation
- GG
- Chromosome number
- Diploid, 2n=24
- Distribution
- Rutland Island, Andaman Islands, India
- Key characteristics
- Seeds brown, leaf blade glabrous, trichomes on leaf edge.
- Habitat
- Forested rocky slope at the edge of a creek.
- Notes
- Only known from one population of about 100 plants. Attempts to obtain hybrids with O. granulata were successful. It has been considered an ecotype of O. granulata with which chromosome pairing in the hybrid is normal
- References
- Ellis, J. L. 1985. Oryza indandamanica Ellis, new rice plant from islands of Andamans. Bull. Bot. Surv. India 27:225-227.
- Khush, G. S., and K. K. Jena. 1989. Biosystematic status of Oryza indandamanica. 6th Int. Congress of SABRAO. Tsukuba, Japan.
- Khush, G. S., D. S. Multani, G. V. Vergara, and D. S. Brar. 1990a. Taxonomic status of O. indandamanica. Rice Genet. Newsl. 7:88-89.
