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Saccharum robustum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Genus: Saccharum
Species:
S. robustum
Binomial name
Saccharum robustum
Brandes & Jesw. ex Grassl

Saccharum robustum, the robust cane, is a species of plant found in New Guinea.

Ecology

Eumetopina flavipes, the island sugarcane planthopper, a species of planthopper present throughout South East Asia which is a vector for the sugarcane pathogen Ramu stunt disease, occurs also on S. robustum.

The pink sugarcane borer ( Sesamia grisescens), a moth of the family Noctuidae found in Papua New Guinea, Seram, the Moluccas and New Britain, also feeds on S. robustum.

Scirpophaga excerptalis, the white top borer or the sugarcane top borer, a moth in the family Crambidae, also feeds on S. robustum.

See also

References

  • Journal of the Arnold Arboretum. Cambridge, MA 27:234. 1946

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