Urochloa Explained
Urochloa is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to Eurasia, Africa, Australia, Mexico, and the Pacific Islands.[1] [2] [3] [4] Common names include signalgrass.[5] [6] [7] [8]
Species
87 species have been accepted by Plants of the World Online (in 2023),
- Urochloa adspersa
- Urochloa advena
- Urochloa albicoma
- Urochloa argentea
- Urochloa arida
- Urochloa arizonica
- Urochloa arrecta
- Urochloa atrisola
- Urochloa bovonei
- Urochloa brachyura (Hack.) Stapf - E + S Africa
- Urochloa brevispicata
- Urochloa brizantha (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) R.Webster - tropical + S Africa
- Urochloa burmanica
- Urochloa caboverdiana
- Urochloa chusqueoides
- Urochloa ciliatissima
- Urochloa clavipila
- Urochloa comata
- Urochloa deflexa
- Urochloa dictyoneura
- Urochloa distachyoides
- Urochloa distachyos
- Urochloa dura
- Urochloa echinolaenoides - Zaïre, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia
- Urochloa eminii
- Urochloa falcifera
- Urochloa foliosa
- Urochloa fusca B.F. Hansen & Wunderlin (browntop signalgrass) - southern USA to Argentina
- Urochloa fusiformis
- Urochloa gilesii
- Urochloa glumaris (Trin.) Veldkamp (Thurston grass) - SE Asia, Indian subcon
- Urochloa holosericea
- Urochloa jaliscana
- Urochloa jubata
- Urochloa kurzii
- Urochloa lachnantha
- Urochloa lata
- Urochloa leersioides
- Urochloa lorentziana
- Urochloa megastachya
- Urochloa meziana
- Urochloa mollis
- Urochloa multiculma
- Urochloa mutica
- Urochloa nigropedata
- Urochloa notochthona
- Urochloa oblita
- Urochloa occidentalis
- Urochloa oligobrachiata
- Urochloa oligotricha (Fig. & De Not.) Henrard - Africa
- Urochloa olivacea Sánchez-Ken - western Mexico
- Urochloa ophryodes
- Urochloa orthostachys
- Urochloa ovalis
- Urochloa panicoides P.Beauv. (panic liverseed grass) - Africa, S. Asia
- Urochloa pauciflora Sánchez-Ken - W. Mexico
- Urochloa paucispicata
- Urochloa piligera
- Urochloa plantaginea
- Urochloa platynota
- Urochloa platyphylla
- Urochloa platyrrhachis C.E.Hubb. - Zambia, Zaïre
- Urochloa polyphylla
- Urochloa polystachya
- Urochloa praetervisa
- Urochloa pubigera
- Urochloa ramosa
- Urochloa reptans
- Urochloa reticulata
- Urochloa rudis Stapf - Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania
- Urochloa rugulosa
- Urochloa sclerochlaena Chiov - Ethiopia, Kenya
- Urochloa semiundulata
- Urochloa serrata
- Urochloa serrifolia
- Urochloa setigera (Retz.) Stapf - Indian subcon, S. China, SE. Asia
- Urochloa stigmatisata
- Urochloa subulifolia
- Urochloa tanimbarensis
- Urochloa texana
- Urochloa trichopodioides (Mez & K.Schum.) S.M.Phillips & S.L.Chen - Zaïre, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia
- Urochloa trichopus (Hochst.) Stapf - Africa, Arabian Pen
- Urochloa turbinata
- Urochloa villosa
- Urochloa whiteana
- Urochloa wittei
- Urochloa xantholeuca
Formerly included
Numerous species once considered members of Urochloa but are now regarded as better suited to other genera,[9] such as Alloteropsis, Brachiaria, Ixophorus, Oplismenus, Panicum, and Rupichloa.
Notes and References
- https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/394131#page/136/mode/1up Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 52-53
- https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/394131#page/136/mode/1up Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plate XI (11), figure I (1)
- http://herbarium.usu.edu/webmanual/info2.asp?name=Urochloa&type=treatment Urochloa.
- Watson, L. and M. J. Dallwitz. Urochloa. The Grass Genera of the World. DELTA – DEscription Language for TAxonomy.
- http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=UROCH Urochloa.
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=134217 Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 523 尾稃草属 wei fu cao shu Urochloa P. Beauvois, Ess. Agrostogr. 52. 1812.
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=134217 Flora of Pakistan
- http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.taxon:414957 Atlas of Living Australia
- http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=449435 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
