Saccharum spontaneum

TaxID: 62335

Basic Information

Saccharum spontaneum

Kash, Wild Sugarcane, wild sugarcane

Saccharum spontaneum (wild sugarcane, kans grass) is a grass native throughout much of tropical and subtropical Asia, northern Australia, and eastern and northern Africa. It is a perennial grass, growing up to three meters in height, with spreading rhizomatous roots. The plant has hybridized with Saccharum officinarum, a domesticated sugarcane. The hybridization has produced Saccharum barberi and Saccharum sinense.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Poales

Poaceae

Saccharum

spontaneum

Unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Saccharum spontaneum
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Saccharum spontaneum
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Saccharum spontaneum
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(c) unknown@CC0
Saccharum spontaneum
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(c) unknown@CC0
Saccharum spontaneum
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(c) unknown@CC0

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (8 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Cuba Present —
Ecuador Quarantine pests —
Guatemala Absent —
Mexico Quarantine pests 2018
Nicaragua Absent —
Peru Absent —
Paraguay Quarantine pests —
United States of America Quarantine pests 1989

Distribution (63 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

63
Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Afghanistan Present —
Algeria Present —
Argentina Present —
Australia Present —
Burkina Faso Present —
Bangladesh Present —
Bhutan Present —
Cambodia Present —
China Present —
Cameroon Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_003544955.1 Chromosome 3133 44 91359 -

Transcriptomes (6 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR35896386 leaf not collected - 14289863 missing
SRR35896381 leaf not collected - 8911544 missing
SRR35896380 leaf not collected - 8835078 missing
SRR37004206 - - - 47831222 missing
SRR37004205 - - - 41509259 missing
SRR37004204 - - - 43833402 missing

DNA Barcodes (33 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
GENG902-14 - rbcL 580 India 2014-09-26 22.251, 70.701
GBITS70337-21 - ITS 591 - - -
GBITS70336-21 - ITS 591 - - -
GBITS70335-21 - ITS 687 India - -
GBITS70334-21 - ITS 682 India - -
GBITS70333-21 - ITS 680 India - -
GBITS70332-21 - ITS 668 India - -
GBITS45046-21 - ITS 589 - - -
GBITS45045-21 - ITS 589 - - -
GBITS45044-21 - ITS 589 - - -
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Literature