Corn (Zea mays)

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Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name: Zea mays L.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.: Zea mays
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.: L.
Common names: Corn, Maize, Indian Corn, Mandamin
Names in other languages (115)
'icú, Aburoo, Agbado, Anyuɔl, Barelle, Bli, Chassi, Choccllo, Dacsa, Dinrêye, Formenton, Frumentone, Granone, Granoturco, Granturco, Gugaruz, Ikuä́, India-Corn, Indrawn, Jagung, Jeseirí, Kaan, Kaba, Kanga, Katana, Kukuruz, Kukurydza, Kukurydza zwyczajna, Kukuřice, Kultur-Mais, Mainshi, Mainshi di Galiña, Mais, Maishi Grandi, Mait, Maizo, Majs, Mazorca, Maís, Maïs, Maïs commun, Maïs cultivé, Maïs, Meis, Melga, Milho, Misir, Mrama, Naataa, Paprastasis kukurūzas, Parastā kukurūza, Qamh ir-rum, Tapushi, Tsakotsako, Welschkorn, Zumri, acipul, ahtziri, batchi, blat de moro, blé d'Inde, cawn, choclo, em, hapxol, harilik mais, ishín, kalampoki, koruza, kukorica, kukurica siata, kukuřice setá, maissi, maíz, maïs cultivé, mmidi, mundale, mundele, mundere, mısır, ndëchjo, saaco, tengeri, tengeri kukorica, vce, viljamaissi, Καλαμπόκι, Жүгері, Кукурудза звичайна, Кукуруз, Кукуруза, Кукуруза обыкновенная, Пченка, Царевица, Եգիպտացորեն, תירס, جواری, ذرة (نبات), ذرة صفراء, ذرت, ظات حعشلعق قوناق, मका, मक्का, ভুট্টা, ਮੱਕੀ, சோளம், మొక్క జొన్న, බඩ ඉරිඟු, ข้าวโพด, ᏎᎷ, キミ, トウモロコシ, 玉米, 玉蜀黍, 粟米, 옥수수
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).: Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.: Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).: Liliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).: Poales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).: Poaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.: Zea
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.: mays
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.: species
Reference species: Zea mays
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.: accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.: Least concern (LC)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-09 06:55.

Photo of Zea mays L. — Photo: Gabriel Cardoso Fialho · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-09 06:55.

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 1 of 20 has its flowers visited by × 19 more types with data for this species

Flower visit

has its flowers visited by 52 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. Visiting a flower is not pollinating it. «Pollinates» is a different term and a different block, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented
Two-spotted Long-horned Bee Melissodes bimaculatus Apidae	has its flowers visited by	181	not compared
181 sources · 181 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/99718 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 8, 2012 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/297695942 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 13, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/298528005 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 16, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/298643323 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 17, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/299207932 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 19, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/300970423 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 25, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/301260984 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 26, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/301525372 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 27, 2025 · Human observation And 173 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae	has its flowers visited by	27	not compared
27 sources · 29 records M.S. Percival, 1955. The presentation of pollen in certain Angiosperms and its collection by Apis mellifera.. New Phytologist, 54. doi:10.1111/j.1469_8137.1955.tb06192.x Published in globalbioticinteractions/dopi Record contexts (sample): no place published · Jan. 1, 1955 · DO; no place published · no date published · PA Records of organisms other than plants having flower visitors are probably errors Published in globalbioticinteractions/refuted-biotic-interactions-by-eol Record contexts (sample): no place published · no date published; no place published · no date published Robertson, C. 1929. Flowers and insects: lists of visitors to four hundred and fifty-three flowers. Carlinville, IL, USA, C. Robertson. Published in millerse/Flowers-and-insects-lists-of-visitors-to-four-hundred-and-fifty-three-flowers Context: southwestern Illinois, USA · no date published https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/297563229 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 1, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/101951773 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Nov. 5, 2021 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/300749425 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 24, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/300751763 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 24, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/207625282 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 13, 2024 · Human observation And 19 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens Apidae	has its flowers visited by	8	not compared
8 sources · 8 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/300749010 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 24, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/300752005 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 24, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/228653460 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 11, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/128523124 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 19, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/231037438 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 22, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/330880767 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 17, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/180940327 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 30, 2023 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/180940418 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 30, 2023 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Pure Green Sweat Bee Augochlora pura Halictidae	has its flowers visited by	4	not compared
4 sources · 4 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/15181569 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 2, 2018 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/229267469 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 14, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/330858508 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 4, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/381182974 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 13, 2026 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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Interaction data from Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI), GloBI 0.11. Each row keeps the citation its own study published.

Interactions are published at species level: they are not resolved by variety or race.

Each block is headed by the source's own term, read from this species' end — not by a category of ours. Two similar terms are not merged.

«Documented here» means the interaction was observed in this territory. It is not evidence that the species is here, and it does not enter the niche model.

Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.