Spodiopogon formosanus

Spodiopogon formosanus or the Taiwan oil millet (Chen Hsien-yi and Dennis Xie (Apr 14, 2020). "Taiwan oil millet touted as a potential superfood". Taiwan News.) (syn.: Eccoilopus formosanusLaurent Sagart, Tze-Fu Hsu, Yuan-Ching Tsai, Yue-Ie Hsing. Austronesian and Chinese words for the millets. Language Dynamics and Change, 2017, 7 (2), pp.187-209. . hal-03146013) is a species of perennial grass in the family Poaceae. It is endemic to Taiwan.TAKEI, Emiko. 2008. Historical review of Spodiopogon formosanus Rendle, a minor grain crop in Taiwan. Bulletin of the Cultural and Natural Sciences in Osaka Gakuin University 57: 43-66 (in Japanese, with English abstract). It is traditionally grown as a cereal crop by the Taiwanese aborigines.Blench, Roger. 2014. The Austronesians: an agricultural revolution that failed. Second International Conference on Taiwan Indigenous Peoples, 15-17 September 2014, Shung Ye Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. Its wild progenitor is most likely Spodiopogon cotulifer, which is found in Taiwan and also in mainland China.Fuller, Dorian Q. (15 May 2009). The Forgotten Oil Millet of Taiwan. In: The Archaeobotanist. For most of the 20th century, the Taiwan oil millet had been misidentified as Echinochloa esculenta (the Japanese barnyard millet or hie 稗) until it was "rediscovered" by Dorian Fuller in the 2000s with the proper identification of specimens as Spodiopogon formosanus.

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