Saccharum officinarum

Saccharum officinarum (binomen a Linnaeo anno 1753 statutum) est planta e Nova Guinea oriunda, quae ad graminacearum familiam pertinet. Homines saccharo ex hac planta extracto ad cibum et in medicina utuntur. Saccharum una e poaceis est quae in photosynthesi via metabolica C4 utitur ad evaporationem cavendam.

 Notae 

 Bibliographia 

 Fontes antiquiores
 ante 25 p.C.n. :  15.1.20, Eratosthenem citans
 circa 50 : Periplus Maris Erythraei 14
 ante 79 :  12.32
 ante 1488 : 
 ante 1508 : Duarte Pacheco Pereira; Raphael Eduardo de Azevedo Basto, ed., Esmeraldo de situ orbis (Olisipone, 1892) pp. 57-58 "canas de asuquar"
 1526/1557 : 
 ante 1595 : 
 1750 :  vol. 5 pp. 186-191, tab. 74-75; cf.  p. 86
 1780: Prudentius Amaralius, De sacchari opificio carmen, 1780

 Botanica
 G. Bentham, J. D. Hooker, Genera Plantarum: Ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis Kewensibus servata definita. Londinii: Lovell Reeve, 1865
 "Saccharum officinarum" in W. D. Clayton, K. T. Harman, H. Williamson, The Online World Grass Flora (2006-)
 Shou-liang Chen, Sylvia M. Phillips, "Saccharum" in Flora of China vol. 22 (2006) pp. 571-589

 Historia
 Tim Denham, "Early Agriculture and Plant Domestication in New Guinea and Island Southeast Asia" in Current Anthropology vol. 52 no. S4 (2011) pp. S379-S395

 Genetica et cultura
 The Biology and Ecology of Sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) in Australia Canberrae: Australian Government, Department of Health and Ageing, 2004
 J. Daniels, B. T. Roach, "Taxonomy and evolution" in Don J. Heinz, ed., Sugarcane improvement through breeding (Amstelodami: Elsevier, 1987) pp. 7-84
 L. Grivet, C. Daniels, J. C. Glaszman, A. D’Hont, "A review of recent molecular genetics evidence for sugarcane evolution and domestication" in Ethnobotany Research and Applications vol. 2 (2004) pp. 9–17
 Don J. Heinz, ed., Sugarcane improvement through breeding. Amstelodami: Elsevier, 1987. ISBN 9780444427694
 G. R. Naik, Sugarcane Biotechnology. Science Publishers, 2001. ISBN 9781578081639
 G. C. Stevenson, Genetics and Breeding of Sugar Cane. Londinii: Longmans, 1965

 Palus Kukensis
 Zafra

 Nexus externi 

 "Saccharum officinarum" apud Kew Royal Botanic Gardens
 "Saccharum officinarum" apud Grassland Species Profiles (FAO)

Categoria:Saccharum
Categoria:Plantae edules
Categoria:Plantae medicinales
Categoria:Flora Novae Guineae
Categoria:Taxa Linnaei
Categoria:Taxa 1753
Categoria:Species plantarum