Saccharum spontaneum (wild sugarcane,[1] kans grass) is a grass native throughout much of tropical and subtropical Asia, northern Australia, and eastern and northern Africa.

[2] It is a perennial grass, growing up to three meters in height, with spreading rhizomatous roots.

[3][4] The plant has hybridized with Saccharum officinarum, a domesticated sugarcane.

The hybridization has produced Saccharum barberi and Saccharum sinense.

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