Common name
English: Job's Tears
German: Hiobsträne
Mandarin: 薏苡 (yi yi)
Portuguese: Lágrima-de-nossa-senhora
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2597)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2496)
Class: Liliopsida (387)
Order: Cyperales (91)
Family: Poaceae (72)(family description)
Genus: Coix (1)
Epithet: lacryma-jobi L. (1)
Synonyms: Coix exaltata Jacq., Coix lacryma L., Coix ovata Stokes, Coix pendula Salisb., Lithagrostis lacryma-jobi (L.) Gaertn., Sphaerium lacryma (L.) Kuntze, Spherium lacryma (L.) Kuntze
exaltata => highest, most eminent
lacryma-jobi => Job's tears
ovata => oval, egg-shaped; elliptic, but broader at the base
pendula => hanging down as through weakness of the stem
Characteristics
Climate: tropical
Habitat: mesophytic
Habit: herb
External links
Check for Coix lacryma-jobi at
World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI- [228] Coix lacryma-jobi - Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER)
- [507] Coix lacryma-jobi - Plants For A Future database
- [1179] Coix lacryma-jobi - GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora
- [1542] Coix lacryma-jobi - Flora of China @ efloras.org