Accession Data

Oryza glaberrima

Common Name: African Rice

Family: Poaceae

Country of Origin: W. Trop. Africa to Chad

Description: As of 2025, GRIN Global identifies this collection as a landrace of Oryza sativa, not true O. glaberrima.

Accession Data

Accession #: 201500064

Accession Date: 2015-05-29 00:00:00

Confirmed At: 2026-03-10 19:18:39

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 1117

Quantity: 2

Source: Rob Nicholson - Smith College

Provenance: ex USDA PI#369447, Kwadwo Amoa, collected in Ashanti, Ghana, received by NPGS 03 Jan 1972.

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida

Subclass: commelinids

Order: Poales

Family: Poaceae

SubFamily: Oryzoideae

Tribe: Oryzeae

SubTribe: Oryzinae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015

References

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 30 May 2015.
  2. WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 30 May 2015.
  3. Oryza glaberrima at Wikipedia. Accessed 30 May 2015.
  4. Oryza glaberrima at Wikispecies. Accessed 29 July 2015.
  5. Oryza sativa PI 369447 at GRIN-Global. Accessed 9 Dec 2025.

Images

Oryza glaberrima