@article{oai:ir.kagoshima-u.ac.jp:00008260, author = {KATAYAMA, Tadao C.}, journal = {南太平洋海域調査研究報告=Occasional papers}, month = {2016-10-28}, note = {During the three periods, i.e., from October to November in 1984, August to November in 1985, and from May to August in 1988, the writer and others travelled through 8 countries of Africa for collection of the wild and cultivated rice species. The number of strains collected was 406 in the total, i.e., 325 strains of O.sativa L. and 81 strains of O.glaberrima STEUD. In the present paper, the following items were reported, i.e., 1) documentary records based on cultivated rice in Africa, 2) distribution, cultivation and habitats of the cultivated species obtained during the three tours. Basing on the analyses of the date obtained in the field survey, morphological, genetical and ecological characters, geographical, ecotypic and varietal differentiations are going to ascertained in the following papers.}, pages = {193--200}, title = {Considerations on Distribution of Cultivated Rice in Africa}, volume = {18}, year = {} }