Wild Rice Information

8. Oryza eichingeri

Distribution:-

Central Africa Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and Uganda

Habitat:-

1. Found in undisturbed forest, gallery or evergreen forest, or forest margins
2. Grows in damp or flooded sites such as pools, water holds, marshy places, streams or riverbanks and beds, in ditches
3. Grows in sandy or gray loamy clay soils
4. Found in shade or semi-shade

Morphological character:-

1. Perennial and short (usually <1 m) grass, with hard and slender culms
2. Glabrous ligule
3. Panicles open to intermediately open
4. Chlorophyllous veins across the length of the immature spikelets, mature spikelets 4.5 to 6.2mm long and 1.6 to 2.8mm wide
5. Anthers 1.5 to 3.3mm long

Specific traits:-

1. Resistance to yellow mottle virus, Brown plant hopper, Green leaf hopper, White backed plant hopper

Reference

1. Rice Knowledge bank, IRRI
2. Gramene database