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Taxon:  Zea mays L. subsp. mays



Summary
Genus:
Zea
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Nomen number:
311987
Verified:
07/15/1987 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Zea mays L. (76 active accession[s])
Zea mays L. subsp. huehuetenangensis (H. H. Iltis & Doebley) Doebley (0 active accession[s])
Zea mays L. subsp. mexicana (Schrad.) H. H. Iltis (0 active accession[s])
Zea mays L. subsp. parviglumis H. H. Iltis & Doebley (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
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Reference(s)
  1. Batra, L. R. Names of Japanese plants sorted by their Japanese names in Romanized Katakana and scientific nomenclature. 1995
  2. Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. 1998 Note: poisonous
  3. Demilly, D. et al. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 6. 1996 Note: GEVES-SNES, Beaucouzé, France
  4. Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
  5. El Bassam, N. 1998. Energy plant species. 18-49.
  6. FNA Editorial Committee. Flora of North America. 1993- http://floranorthamerica.org/
  7. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Zea+mays+subsp.+mays&quantity=1
  8. Grubben, G. J. H. & Soetjipto Partohardjono, eds. 1996. Cereals. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 10:143. http://proseanet.org
  9. Kellerman, T. S. et al. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. 1988 Note: poisonous
  10. Kingsbury, J. M. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. 1964 Note: poisonous
  11. Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. 1993
  12. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
  13. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  14. Rehm, S. & G. Espig. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics. 1991
  15. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  16. Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource). http://www.botanicalbeads.com/
  17. Terrell, E. E. et al. Agric. Handb. no. 505. 1986
Common names
English
corn –
dent corn –
field corn –
flint corn –
maize –
pod corn –
popcorn –
sweet corn –
Arabic
dura shami –
French
maïs –
German
Mais –
Italian
granoturco –
mais –
Japanese Rōmaji
tō-morokoshi –
Portuguese
milho –
Spanish
maíz –
Swedish
majs –
Transcribed Chinese
yu shu shu –
Transcribed Korean
gangnaengi –
ogsusu –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
2Cultivated    only cult.
Cultivated (only cult.)
Economic Uses
Animal food
Environmental
ornamental (fide Econ Pl Aust) –
Food additives
sweetener (fide CultTropS) –
Fuels
petroleum substitute/alcohol (fide N. El Bassam 1998) –
Human food
beverage base (fide CultTropS, as Z. mays) –
Materials
beads (fide Bot Beads World; as http://www.botanicalbeads.com/BBB_page_18.html,) –
Medicines
folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2, as Z. mays; Herbs Commerce ed2, as Z. mays) –
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2; Kellerman et al.) –


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