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A NAME CHANGE FOR CENTRAL AMERICAN TEOSINTE
Author(s) -
Bird Robert McK.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1220377
Subject(s) - inflorescence , biology , hybrid , poaceae , botany , evolutionary biology
Summary The differences between maize and annual teosinte are so numerous that individuals of the two species are never confused, and hybrids and backcrosses are easily distinguished. Mexican and Central American teosintes are similar, but differences in the male and female inflorescences, as well as cytogenetic and geographical separation, allow them to be delimited as two species of Zea Linnaeus (1753) (Gramineae).