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Weed Science & Agronomy
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Bayer Code : leror

Scientific name: Leersia oryzoides (L.) Swartz


Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Oryza oryzoides Brand, Oryza clandestina A. Br.

Classification: Gramineae, Monocotyledonous

Common name: cut-grass (GB),rice cutgrass (U.S.A.)

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Reisquecke ; ES : hierba peluda ; FR : léersia faux-riz ; IT : riso selvatico ; PT : erva-serra ; EN : cut-grass (GB), EN : rice cutgrass (U.S.A.) ;

Biological type: Perennial


Seedling snapshotSeedling snapshot Seedling:

- Praefoliation convolute.

- Leaves : having a hollow blade with central and glabrous veins.


Adult plant snapshot Adult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height : 30-200 cm.

- Culm: erect or ascending.

- Leaves : blade 10-20x0.5 cm, scabrous, with whitish central venation ; ligule truncate.

- Inflorescence : pyramid-like panicle 10-20 cm, lax, with flexuous stalks, often partly or completely wrapped by the sheath of the upper leaf ; spikelets with 1 floret, without glume ; lemma and palea 4-5 cm, carinate, muticous, ciliate on keel.

- Fruit : caryopsis.

- Biological type : perennial.


Ecological profile (click on flags): France   Present     Italy  Present     Portugal  Present    

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