Subject: Orhizopsis rigida

From: Stephen Watkins <[email-masked]>
Date: 13 Jul 1995 08:06:41 GMT

Would appreciate any information regarding Orhizopsis rigida commonly 
known as " Rainbow Grass ", Have been unable to secure references either 
in text or WWW searchs. I presume it is a synonym.  Any help would be of 
great help thanks.

Roger Watkins
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Timothy J Keenan)
Date: 14 Jul 1995 15:41:00 GMT

Stephen Watkins ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Would appreciate any information regarding Orhizopsis rigida commonly 
: known as " Rainbow Grass ", Have been unable to secure references either 
: in text or WWW searchs. I presume it is a synonym.  Any help would be of 
: great help thanks.

I think the problem may be spelling.  I have never heard of 
"_Orhizopsis_", but the suffix -opsis means "similar to", and I suspect 
that the genus you are looking for would be called "_Oryzopsis_", which 
would mean "a genus similar to _Oryza_".  _Oryza_ _sativa_ is the cereal 
grain known as rice.  This guess is based on my knowledge of the genus 
"_Zizaniopsis_", another aquatic grass which resembles the genus 
"_Zizania_", whose North American species are known as "wild rice".

Hope this is of some use--

Tim Keenan

Cliff Ecology Research Group
Botany Department
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario