Oryza glaberrima

Oryza glaberrima
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
(unranked):	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Bambusoideae
Tribe:	Oryzeae
Genus:	Oryza
Species:	O. glaberrima
Binomial name
	Oryza glaberrima; Steud.

Oryza glaberrima, commonly known as African rice, is one of two species of rice in the Poaceae. African rice is lesser known than the more common species of rice Oryza sativa. African rice is believed to have been domesticated 2,000-3,000 years ago in the Inland delta of the Upper Niger river, in what is today the country of Mali. During the 1950s French botanist Roland Porteres made the claim that glaberrima was first domesticated about 3,500 years ago.

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