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Taxon:  Coix puellarum Balansa



Summary
Genus:
Coix
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Subtribe:
Coicinae
Nomen number:
417384
Place of publication:
J. Bot. (Morot) 4:77. 1890
Verified:
10/13/2000 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Coix lacryma-jobi L. var. puellarum (Balansa) A. Camus

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Reference(s)
  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959-
  2. Grubben, G. J. H. & Soetjipto Partohardjono, eds. 1996. Cereals. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 10:85.
  3. Lazarides, M. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia. 1980
  4. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  5. Shukla, U. Grasses of north-eastern India. 1996
Common names
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaYunnan 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaMizoram 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaCambodia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaLaos  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaMyanmar  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaThailand  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaVietnam  
2Cultivated     
Native
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China [Yunnan]
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India [Mizoram]
  • INDO-CHINA: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
Cultivated ()
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Environmentalornamental Grubben, G. J. H. & Soetjipto Partohardjono, eds. 1996. Cereals. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 10:85.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=417384. Accessed 16 December 2025.

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