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Taxon:  Zea mays L.



Summary
Genus:
Zea
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Nomen number:
42207
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:971. 1753
Verified:
10/28/2009 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
76 (76  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Zea mays L. subsp. huehuetenangensis (H. H. Iltis & Doebley) Doebley (0 active accession[s])
Zea mays L. subsp. mays (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
No images
Reference(s)
  1. Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource). Note: http://www.agroatlas.ru/en/content/cultural/Zea_mays_K/
  2. Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009 Note:
    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  3. Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource). http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/BSBI/taxonsearch.php
  4. Boulos, L. Flora of Egypt. 1999-
  5. Doebley, J. F. & H. H. Iltis. 1980. Taxonomy of Zea (Gramineae). I. A subgeneric classification with key to taxa. Amer. J. Bot. 67:982-1004. http://www.amjbot.org
  6. Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
  7. FNA Editorial Committee. Flora of North America. 1993- http://floranorthamerica.org/
  8. 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&quantity=1
  9. Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource). http://www.anbg.gov.au/common.names/
  10. International Seed Testing Association. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2. 1982
  11. Lee, Y. N. Flora of Korea. 1997
  12. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 Note: American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
  13. Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:134.
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  15. 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
  16. Sánchez G., J. J. et al. 2011. Three new teosintes (Zea spp., Poaceae) from México. Amer. J. Bot. 98:1537-1548. http://www.amjbot.org
  17. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
  18. PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). http://www.prota4u.info/
Common names
English
Indian corn –
maize –
Swedish
majs –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorthern MexicoMexicoChihuahua 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorthern MexicoMexicoDurango 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSouthern MexicoMexicoGuanajuato 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSouthern MexicoMexicoJalisco 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSouthern MexicoMexicoMexico 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSouthern MexicoMexicoMichoacan 
1NativeSouthern AmericaMesoamericaGuatemala  
2Cultivated    also cult.
Native
Northern America
  • NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chihuahua, Durango]
  • SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Guanajuato, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan]
Southern America
  • MESOAMERICA: Guatemala
Cultivated (also cult.)
Economic Uses
Medicines


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