Oryza brachyantha

Oryza brachyantha, described by A.Chev. & Roehr. in 1914, belongs to the grass family Poaceae. It is distributed across the Afrotropical region and parts of the Global Tropics, including countries such as Chad, Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Myanmar, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Zambia, Zaïre, Base-Guinée, and Haute-Guinée. This species is an annual grass that grows in tufts and is distantly related to the cultivated rice species Oryza sativa.