Saccharum officinarumL.

sugarcane

WFO wfo-0000896660 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Saccharum officinarum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2019-07-14 / obs. 46755500
Saccharum officinarum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 46755556
Saccharum officinarum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 46755543
Saccharum officinarum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 46755514
Saccharum officinarum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 46755548
Saccharum officinarum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 46755653
Saccharum officinarum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 46755479
Saccharum officinarum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 46755538

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Saccharum officinarum is native: New Guinea New Guinea
Native distribution of Saccharum officinarum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
New Guinea NWG ASIA-TROPICAL

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 40 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Arundo saccharifera Garsault
  • Saccharifera officinalis Stokes
  • Saccharum atrorubens Cuzent & Pancher ex Drake
  • Saccharum bataviense André
  • Saccharum fragile Cuzent & Pancher ex Drake
  • Saccharum glabrum Cuzent & Pancher
  • Saccharum hybridum R.M.Grey
  • Saccharum infirmum Steud.
  • Saccharum luzonicum Hack.
  • Saccharum monandrum Rol.
  • Saccharum obscurum Cuzent & Pancher ex Drake
  • Saccharum occidentale Sw.
  • Saccharum officinale Salisb.
  • Saccharum officinarum var. atrorubens Cuzent & Pancher ex Drake
  • Saccharum officinarum var. brevipedicellatum Hack.
  • Saccharum officinarum var. fragile Cuzent & Pancher ex Drake
  • Saccharum officinarum var. genuinum Hack.
  • Saccharum officinarum var. giganteum Kunth
  • Saccharum officinarum var. glabrum Cuzent & Pancher ex Drake
  • Saccharum officinarum var. jamaicense Sickenb.
  • Saccharum officinarum var. litteratum Hack.
  • Saccharum officinarum var. litteratum Hassk.
  • Saccharum officinarum var. litteratum-breve Hassk.
  • Saccharum officinarum var. luridum Hassk.

and 16 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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