Urochloa

Urochloa is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to Eurasia, Africa, Australia, Mexico, and the Pacific Islands.[2][3][4][5] Common names include signalgrass.[6][7][8][9]

Species[10]
  • Urochloa brachyura (Hack.) Stapf - E + S Africa
  • Urochloa brizantha (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) R.Webster - native to tropical + S Africa; introduced and widely grown in S America + Pacific
  • Urochloa echinolaenoides Stapf - Zaïre, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia
  • Urochloa fusca B.F. Hansen & Wunderlin browntop signalgrass - southern United States to Argentina
  • Urochloa glumaris (Trin.) Veldkamp Thurston grass - southern China, Southeast Asia, Indian subcon, islands of Pacific + Indian Oceans
  • Urochloa longifolia B.S.Sun & Z.H.Hu - Yunnan
  • Urochloa mosambicensis (Hack.) Dandy - Africa, Madagascar
  • Urochloa oligotricha (Fig. & De Not.) Henrard - Africa
  • Urochloa olivacea Sánchez-Ken - western Mexico (Colima, Nayarit)
  • Urochloa panicoides P.Beauv. panic liverseed grass - Africa, southern Asia
  • Urochloa pauciflora Sánchez-Ken - western Mexico (Jalisco, Michoacán)
  • Urochloa platyrrhachis C.E.Hubb. - Zambia, Zaïre
  • Urochloa rudis Stapf - Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania
  • Urochloa sclerochlaena Chiov - Ethiopia, Kenya
  • Urochloa setigera (Retz.) Stapf - Indian subcon, southern China, Southeast Asia
  • Urochloa trichopodioides (Mez & K.Schum.) S.M.Phillips & S.L.Chen - Zaïre, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia
  • Urochloa trichopus (Hochst.) Stapf - drier parts of Africa, Arabian Pen
  • Urochloa venosa (Swallen) Morrone & Zuloaga - western Mexico (Michoacán)
Formerly included[10]

Signalgrass
Urochloa mosambicensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Panicodae
Tribe: Paniceae
Subtribe: Melinidinae
Genus: Urochloa
P.Beauv.[1]
Type species
Urochloa panicoides

Numerous species once considered members of Urochloa but now regarded as better suited to other genera: Alloteropsis Brachiaria Ixophorus Oplismenus Panicum Rupichloa

References

  1. "Genus: Urochloa P. Beauv". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 1999-03-09. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
  2. Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 52-53 descriptions in Latin, commentary in French
  3. Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plate XI (11), figure I (1) line drawings of flower parts of Urochloa panicoides
  4. Urochloa. Grass Manual. Flora of North America.
  5. Watson, L. and M. J. Dallwitz. Urochloa. The Grass Genera of the World. DELTA – DEscription Language for TAxonomy.
  6. Urochloa. USDA PLANTS.
  7. Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 523 尾稃草属 wei fu cao shu Urochloa P. Beauvois, Ess. Agrostogr. 52. 1812.
  8. Flora of Pakistan
  9. Atlas of Living Australia
  10. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

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