Saccharum officinarum

Translingual

Saccharum officinarum

Proper noun

Saccharum officinarum n

1. A taxonomic species within the family Poaceae – sugar cane, thought to be endemic to Papua New Guinea, either itself or in hybrids the source of cane sugar.

Hypernyms

• (species): Poales - order; Poaceae - family; PACMAD clade - clade; Panicoideae - subfamily; Andropogoneae - tribe; Saccharinae - subtribe; Saccharum - genus; Saccharum officinarum complex - species complex

Coordinate terms

• (species): Saccharum sinense (Japanese cane), Saccharum barberi (Indian cane), Saccharum robustum (robust cane), Saccharum edule (vegetable cane), Saccharum spontaneum (kans grass, wild sugarcane) - species that hybridize with S. officinarum

References

• Saccharum officinarum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Saccharum officinarum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Saccharum officinarum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Saccharum officinarum at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Saccharum officinarum at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Saccharum officinarum at USDA Plants database
• Saccharum officinarum at Tropicos
• Saccharum officinarum at Germplasm Resources Information Network
• Saccharum+officinarum at The Plant List