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Taxon:  Urochloa brizantha (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) R. D. Webster



Summary
Genus:
Urochloa
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Paniceae
Subtribe:
Melinidinae
Nomen number:
401367
Place of publication:
Austral. Paniceae 233. 1987
Verified:
03/06/1995 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
256 (256  active, 161  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Panicum brizanthum Hochst. ex A. Rich.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Brachiaria brizantha (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Stapf

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Reference(s)
  1. Catasús Guerra, L. J. 2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1-163. Note: = Brachiaria brizantha (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Stapf
  2. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America. URL: http://floranorthamerica.org/
  3. Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986-. Flora of the Guianas. Note: = Brachiaria brizantha (A. Rich) Stapf, introduced
  4. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
  5. Lara S., M. A. & C. G. S. Pedreira. 2011. Estimativa da assimilação de carbono em dosséis de espécies de braquiária. Pesq. Agropecu. Brasil. 46:743-750.
  6. Morrone, O. & F. O. Zuloaga. 1992. Revisión de las especies sudamericanas nativas e introducidas de los géneros Brachiaria y Urochloa (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae). Darwiniana 31:70.
  7. Morrone, O. & F. O. Zuloaga. 1993. Sinopsis del genero Urochloa (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae) para Mexico y America central. Darwiniana 32:64.
  8. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). URL: http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  9. Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status. URL: http://www.weeds.org.au/docs/intro_flora_australia.pdf
  10. Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
  11. 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 4:56-58. URL: http://proseanet.org Note: = Brachiaria brizantha (A. Rich.) Stapf
  12. Veldkamp, J. F. 1997. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
  13. Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource). URL: http://botany.si.edu/pacificislandbiodiversity/hawaiianflora/query2.cfm
  14. Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun Note: = Brachiaria brizantha (A. Rich.) Stapf
  15. Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:630.
  16. Plants of southern Africa: an online checklist. URL: http://posa.sanbi.org/searchspp.php Note: = Brachiaria brizantha (A. Rich.) Stapf
Common names
English
bread grass –
palisade grass –
palisade signal grass –
signal grass –
German
Palisadengras –
Portuguese (Brazil)
braquiarão –
braquiária –
braquiária-do-morro –
brizantão –
capim-marandu –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaKenya  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaTanzania  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaUganda  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaEthiopia  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaMalawi  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaMozambique  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaZambia  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaZimbabwe  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaBotswana  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaNamibia  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth Africa n. & e.
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaCôte D'Ivoire  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGhana  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGuinea  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaNigeria  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaSierra Leone  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaCameroon  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaDemocratic Republic of the Congo  
2CultivatedSouthern AmericaBrazilBrazil  
2CultivatedSouthern AmericaNorthern South AmericaVenezuela  
2CultivatedSouthern AmericaSouthern South AmericaArgentina  
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSouth-Central U.S.A.United StatesTexas 
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaBrazilBrazil  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaCaribbeanTrinidad and Tobago  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaCentral AmericaHonduras  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaNorthern South AmericaFrench Guiana  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaNorthern South AmericaVenezuela  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaSouthern South AmericaArgentina  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaWestern South AmericaBolivia  
Native
Africa
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
  • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Côte D'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Sierra Leone
  • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Namibia, South Africa (n. & e.)
Cultivated
Southern America
  • NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Venezuela
  • BRAZIL: Brazil
  • SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina
Naturalized
Northern America
  • SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
Southern America
  • CARIBBEAN: Trinidad and Tobago
  • CENTRAL AMERICA: Honduras
  • NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Venezuela
  • BRAZIL: Brazil
  • WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia
  • SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Animal foodforagefide Darwiniana 31:71. 1992Morrone, O. & F. O. Zuloaga. 1992. Revisión de las especies sudamericanas nativas e introducidas de los géneros Brachiaria y Urochloa (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae). Darwiniana 31:70.
Medicinesfolkloreas Brachiaria brizanthaMcGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.


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