Family | Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) |
Subfamily | Panicoideae |
Tribe | Andropogoneae |
Scientific name | Miscanthus sinensis Andersson |
Synonyms | Eulalia japonica Trinius; Miscanthus flavidus Honda; Miscanthus kanehirae Honda; Miscanthus purpurascens Andersson; Miscanthus sinensis Andersson forma glaber Honda; Miscanthus sinensis Andersson subsp. purpurascens (Andersson) Tzvelev; Miscanthus sinensis Andersson var. purpurascens (Andersson) Matsumura; Miscanthus transmorrisonensis Hayata; Saccharum japonicum Thunberg |
Common name | (Japanese common name) susuki (ススキ, 薄 [meaning: well growing grass]) |
(English common name) zebra grass, eulalia | |
Distribution | (Japan) Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Okinawa |
(Other nations) Russia, Korea, China, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia | |
Habitat | Field |
Chromosomal number | 2n=28, 38, 40 |
Description | Leaves 50-80cm long, 7-20mm wide. Culms many 100-200cm tall. Flowers spikelets 5-7mm long, flowering in August to October. Perennial plants. |
Reference | Miscanthus sinensis Andersson |
Miscanthus sinensis Andersson | |
Delignification of cellulosic raw materials using acetic acid, nitric acid and ozone (US Patent 5385641/1995) | |
Cultivation substrate and method of preparing the same (US Patent 5900038/1999) | |
Wood pulping with acetic acid with the addition of formic acid (US Patent 6139683/2000) | |
Sustained totipotent culture of selected monocot genera (US Patent 6821782/2004) | |
Process for recovering organic acids from bleaching liquors (US Patent 6923888/2005) |
August 2006 at Tsukuba Botanical Garden |
August 2006 at Tsukuba Botanical Garden |
August 2006 at Tsukuba Botanical Garden |
August 2006 at Tsukuba Botanical Garden |
August 2006 at Tsukuba Botanical Garden |
October 2006 at mountane field |
October 2006 at mountane field |
October 2006 at mountane field |