Coix lacryma-jobi L.

English: Job's Tears

German: Hiobsträne

Mandarin: 薏苡 (yi yi)

Portuguese: Lágrima-de-nossa-senhora

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Liliopsida (397)

      Order: Cyperales (91)

        Family: Poaceae (73)(family description)

          Genus: Coix (1)

            Epithet: lacryma-jobi L. (1)

lacryma-jobi => Job's tears

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

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

• [12] Dokosi, O.B. (1998): Herbs of Ghana. Ghana University Press, Accra, Ghana.
• [13] Sauerborn E., Sauerborn J. (1985): Wichtige Unkrautarten der Tropen und Subtropen. Verlag Josef Margraf, Weikersheim, Germany.