Other conspecific taxa:

• Coix lacryma-jobi var. lacryma-jobi (0 accessions)
• Coix lacryma-jobi var. maxima (0 accessions)
• Coix lacryma-jobi var. ma-yuen (0 accessions)
• Coix lacryma-jobi var. monilifer (0 accessions)
• Coix lacryma-jobi var. stenocarpa (0 accessions)

Common names:

• adlay  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• adlay millet  (Source: AH 505) - English
• Job's-tears  (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
• larmes de Job  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• Hiobsträne  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• juzudama  (Source: F JapanOhwi) - Japanese Rōmaji
• lágrimas de Job  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• lágrimas de San Pedro  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• Jobs tårar  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
• yi yi  (Source: F China) - Transcribed Chinese

Economic Importance:

• Environmental: ornamental
• Human food:
• Materials: lipids (additive used in cosmetics) lipids
• Medicines: folklore; folklore

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

• CHINA: China

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
• PAPUASIA: Papua New Guinea
• INDO-CHINA: Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
• MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines


Cultivated (cult. in paleotropics)

Naturalized (widely natzd. in tropics & subtropics)

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