Saccharum officinarum L.

Saccharum officinarum L.

POACEAE

- Grass family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Saccharum officinarum L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 54 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Sugarcane

English name: noble sugarcane

English name: sugarcane

Spanish name: caña dulce

French name: canne à sucre

Italian name: Canna da zucchero

German name: Zukerrohr

Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Commelinidae
Order: Cyperales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Saccharum
Species:

Page counter: 4487 ( AVG: 224.1 / 293.822 )

Gallery:

Saccharum officinarum
Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. Washington, DC. - Non-Copyrighted Image

Saccharum officinarum
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Villa de San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Parque Botanico de Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spagna, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Saccharum officinarum
Remnant in abandoned field at Paia, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Saccharum officinarum
Habit at Maui Nui Botanical Garden, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Saccharum officinarum
Habit at Haliimaile, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Saccharum officinarum
Habit at Kepaniwai, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Saccharum officinarum
With tassles at Haliimaile, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Saccharum officinarum
Picture modified from Thomé, Otto Wilhelm - Lehrbuch der Botanik fur Gymnasien, Realschulen, forst- und landwirthschaftliche Lehranstalten, pharmaceutische Institute etc. sowie zum Selbstunterrichte. 2. Auflage. (1872) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Saccharum officinarum
Tassles at Paia Bay, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Saccharum officinarum
Var Uahiapele at Maui Nui Botanical Garden, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Saccharum officinarum
Tassles and surfer at Paia Bay, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX), USA+ (PR, VI)

Distributional map for Saccharum officinarum L.
Map for Saccharum officinarum L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Saccharum ravennae (L.) L. [314]
2) Saccharum robustum E.W. Brandes & Jeswiet ex Grassl [excluded] [485]
3) Saccharum sagittatum Aubl. [306]
4) Saccharum spontaneum L. ssp. aegyptiacum (Willd.) Hack. [2646]
5) Sacciolepis striata (L.) Nash [497]
6) Sadleria hillebrandii W.J. Rob. [199]
7) Sagina intermedia Fenzl [260]
8) Sagina virginica L. [249]
9) Sagittaria lancifolia L. [331]
10) Sagittaria subulata (L.) Buchenau var. subulata [209]

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