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Saccharum

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The genus Saccharum (Poaceae) contains the sugar canes (actually several species) and other ornamental grasses such as Ravenna grass .

  • Saccharum alopecuroidum (L.) Nutt. -- silver plumegrass
  • Saccharum arundinaceum Retz.
  • Saccharum baldwinii Spreng. -- narrow plumegrass
  • Saccharum barberi Jeswiet -- Barber's cane
  • Saccharum bengalense Retz. -- Munj sweetcane
  • Saccharum brevibarbe (Michx.) Pers. -- shortbeard plumegrass
  • Saccharum coarctatum (Fern.) R. Webster -- compressed plumegrass
  • Saccharum giganteum (Walt.) Pers. -- sugarcane plumegrass
  • Saccharum officinarum L. -- sugarcane
  • Saccharum ravennae (L.) L. -- Ravenna grass, ravennagrass
  • Saccharum robustum Brandes & Jesw. ex Grassl -- robust cane
  • Saccharum sinense Roxb. -- Chinese cane
  • Saccharum spontaneum L. -- ahlek, loa, wild cane, wild sugarcane

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