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Saccharum × sinense; photograph John Gaskin, CC0, iNaturalist via GBIF CC0John Gaskin, CC0, iNaturalist via GBIF

Saccharum × sinense Roxb.

Chinese cane; Chinese sugarcane

Poaceae · New Guinea

A hybrid: S. officinarum × S. spontaneum, the parents Kew's World Checklist states for it (WCVP, RBG Kew).

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Saccharum × sinense, photograph farkomer from Taichung Taiwan, Taiwan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSaccharum × sinense, photograph farkomer from Taichung Taiwan, Taiwan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSaccharum × sinense, photograph NIG YUE 23 DAPIENGEE LIEM, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSaccharum × sinense, photograph NIG YUE 23 DAPIENGEE LIEM, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSaccharum × sinense, photograph MOSCKAI Yinam, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSaccharum × sinense, photograph Andy Li, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons 9 photographs ›

Summary

Saccharum sinense or Saccharum × sinense, synonym Saccharum × barberi, sugarcane, is strong-growing species of grass (Poaceae) in the genus Saccharum. It originated in India and was originally cultivated in Northern India and China, where it is still commonly grown. It is a more primitive form of sugarcane with a hybrid origin from Saccharum officinarum and Saccharum spontaneum species of cane. A number of clones exists that are often included in the S. officinarum species as the Pansahi group. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Saccharum sinense", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 1 in-range record, none placed to within 10 km. 1 of the 1 in-range records is placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though it counts for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeNew Guinea · introduced: Mauritius, Madagascar, China South-Central, Hainan, China North-Central, China Southeast, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Jawa, Malaya, Maluku, Hawaii, Honduras · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“perennial or rhizomatous geophyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on the one georeferenced record inside the native range, openly licensed and shown on the map. 36 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 1 in-range record is placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stays on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: farkomer from Taichung Taiwan, Taiwan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); NIG YUE 23 DAPIENGEE LIEM, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); MOSCKAI Yinam, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Andy Li, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Saccharum 2 in the reference

Saccharum officinarum Saccharum officinarum Sugarcane Photo: CC BY-SA, Wallace Carneiro AlmeidaSaccharum spontaneum Saccharum spontaneum Wild sugarcane Photo: CC BY, 祐

Names & registers

Also known as Saccharum aegyptiacum subsp. sinense; Saccharum aegyptiacum var. sinense; Saccharum officinarum subsp. barberi; Saccharum officinarum subsp. sinense; Saccharum sinensis and 1 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Poaceae
Described by
Roxb.
Native to
New Guinea
Wild records
1 in range · 1 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-221 in-range record, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 14 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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