Coix
Genus of grasses
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Coix /ˈkoʊɪks/ is a genus of Asian and Australian plants in the grass family.[3][4]
| Coix | |
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| Coix lacryma-jobi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
| Supertribe: | Andropogonodae |
| Tribe: | Andropogoneae |
| Subtribe: | Coicinae Rchb. ex Clayton & Renvoize |
| Genus: | Coix L. |
| Type species | |
| Coix lacryma-jobi | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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The best-known species is Coix lacryma-jobi, widely called Job's tears. Its variety Coix lacryma-jobi var. ma-yuen is cultivated in many warm regions as a source of food, medicine, and ornamentation.[5][6]
The generic name is from Ancient Greek κόϊξ (koix), which originally referred to the doum palm (Hyphaene thebaica); the fruits of the doum palm resemble the diaspores of Coix.[7]
Species
- Coix aquatica Roxb. - China (Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi), Indian subcontinent, Indochina, Peninsular Malaysia; naturalized in New Guinea
- Coix gasteenii B.K.Simon - northern Queensland
- Coix lacryma-jobi L. - China, Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia; naturalized in other parts of Asia as well as in southern Europe, Africa, the Americas, and various oceanic islands
Formerly Included
[2] see Chionachne Polytoca Tripsacum
- Coix angulata - Tripsacum dactyloides
- Coix barbata - Chionachne gigantea
- Coix crypsoides - Chionachne gigantea
- Coix dactyloides - Tripsacum dactyloides
- Coix gigantea J.Koenig 1788 not J.Koenig ex Roxb. 1932 - Chionachne gigantea
- Coix heteroclita - Polytoca digitata
- Coix koenigii - Chionachne gigantea
- Coix sulcata - Chionachne punctata
Formerly included in
This genus was formerly placed in the Maydeae, now known to be polyphyletic.[Sch 1]
