Nombres vernáculos
(en territorios con usos significativos TRAMIL)
Santo Domingo:
- maíz
Haití:
- mayi
Distribución geográfica
Originaria de América, actualmente cosmopolita debido al cultivo.
Descripción botánica
Herbácea anual de 1-5 m de altura, raíces fibrosas. Hojas glabras o pilosas, de 1 m o más, acuminadas. Panícula estaminada de 20-35 cm de largo, racimos 3-40 sin una capa basal de abscisión, racimo terminal más grueso que los racimos laterales; inflorescencias pistiladas axilares, de unos 30 cm. Cariopsis desnudo con granos blancos, amarillos, rojizos; la mazorca rodeada por brácteas envolventes.
Voucher(s)
Girón,240,CFEH
Fuentes,4735,ROIG
Farmacopea
Ed.3References
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