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Saccharum robustum, the robust cane, is a species of plant found in New Guinea.

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Saccharum robustum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Panicoideae
Genus:	Saccharum
Species:	S. robustum
Binomial name
Saccharum robustum Brandes & Jesw. ex Grassl

Ecology

Eumetopina flavipes, the island sugarcane planthopper, a species of planthopper present throughout South East Asia and is a vector for the Ramu stunt disease, a plant disease which affects sugarcane, occurs also on S. robustum.

The pink sugarcane borer (Sesamia grisescens), a moth of the family Noctuidae found in Papua New Guinea, Seram, the Moluccas and New Britain, also feeds on S. robustum.

Scirpophaga excerptalis, the white top borer or the sugarcane top borer, a moth in the family Crambidae, also feeds on S. robustum.

See also

• Domesticated plants and animals of Austronesia

References

• Journal of the Arnold Arboretum. Cambridge, MA 27:234. 1946

External links

• Data related to Saccharum robustum at Wikispecies

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