Kingdom/Regno: Plantae (Plants/Piante)
Subkingdom/Sottoregno: Tracheobionta (Vascular plants/Piante vascolari)
Superdivision/Superdivisione: Spermatophyta (Seed plants/Piante con semi)
Division/Divisione: Magnoliophyta (Flowering plants/Piante con fiori)
Class/Classe: Liliopsida (Monocotyledons/Monocotiledoni)
Subclass/Sottoclasse: Commelinidae
Order/Ordine: Cyperales
Family/Famiglia: Poaceae (Grass family)
Genus/Genere: Zea L. (corn)

Species/Specie:
1) Zea curagua Molina [Sag. stor. nat. Chili 129, 354. 1782] (= Zea indentata Sturtev.) (= Zea indurata Sturtev.) (= Zea japonica Van Houtte) (= Zea saccharata Sturtev.)
2) Zea diploperennis H. H. Iltis et al. [Science 203:186. 1979] Diploperennial teosinte Milpilla
3) Zea hybrid (= Euchlaena hybrid )
4) Zea indentata Sturtev. [Rep. (Annual) New York Agric. Exp. Sta., Geneva 1884:172. 1885] (= Zea curagua Molina) (= Zea indurata Sturtev.) (= Zea japonica Van Houtte) (= Zea saccharata Sturtev.)
5) Zea indurata Sturtev. [Rep. (Annual) New York Agric. Exp. Sta., Geneva 1884:164. 1885] (= Zea curagua Molina) (= Zea indentata Sturtev.) (= Zea japonica Van Houtte) (= Zea saccharata Sturtev.)
6) Zea japonica Van Houtte [Fl. Serres Jard. Eur. 16:121, t. 1673-1674. 1867] (= Zea curagua Molina) (= Zea indentata Sturtev.) (= Zea indurata Sturtev.) (= Zea saccharata Sturtev.)
7) Zea luxurians (Durieu & Asch.) R. M. Bird [Taxon 27:363. 1978] (= Euchlaena luxurians Durieu & Asch.) Florida teosinte
8) Zea mays L. [Handb. Getreidebaus 1:363, 372. 1885] (T scap) Granoturco Sweet corn
9) Zea mexicana (Schrad.) Kuntze [T. E. Post & C. E. O. Kuntze, Lex. gen. phan. 599. 1903 (Reeves & Mangelsd., Amer. J. Bot. 29:817. 1942)] (= Euchlaena mexicana Schrad.)
10) Zea nicaraguensis H. H. Iltis & B. F. Benz [Novon 10:382, fig. 1-2. 2000]
11) Zea perennis (Hitchc.) Reeves & Mangelsd. [Amer. J. Bot. 29:817. 1942] (= Euchlaena perennis Hitchc.) Perennial teosinte Mehrjährige Teosinte
12) Zea saccharata Sturtev. [Rep. (Annual) New York Agric. Exp. Sta., Geneva 1884:156. 1885] (= Zea curagua Molina) (= Zea indentata Sturtev.) (= Zea indurata Sturtev.) (= Zea japonica Van Houtte)