Chi Saccharum

Saccharum, is a genus of six to 37 species (depending on which taxonomic system is used) of tall perennial true grasses of the in tribeAndropogoneae, native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South Asia. The genus includes the sugar canes (actually several species) and other ornamental grasses such as Ravenna grass.

They have stout jointed fibrous stalks that are rich in sugar, and measure two to six metres (6 to 19 feet) tall. All sugar cane species interbreed and the major commercial cultivars are complex hybrids.

1. Saccharum alopecuroidum (L.) Nutt. -- silver plumegrass
2. Saccharum arundinaceum Retz.
3. Saccharum baldwinii Spreng. -- narrow plumegrass
4. Saccharum barberi Jeswiet—Barber's cane
5. Saccharum bengalense Retz. -- Munj sweetcane
6. Saccharum brevibarbe (Michx.) Pers. -- shortbeard plumegrass
7. Saccharum coarctatum (Fern.) R. Webster—compressed plumegrass
8. Saccharum edule Hassk.
9. Saccharum giganteum (Walt.) Pers. -- sugarcane plumegrass
10. Saccharum officinarum L. -- sugarcane
11. Saccharum ravennae (L.) L. -- Ravenna grass, ravennagrass
12. Saccharum robustum Brandes & Jesw. ex Grassl—robust cane
13. Saccharum sinense Roxb. -- Chinese cane
14. Saccharum spontaneum L. -- ahlek, loa, wild cane, wild sugarcane