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

Common names:

• braquiária   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 as Brachiaria brizantha)
  
• braquiária-do-morro   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 as Brachiaria brizantha)
  
• braquiarão   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 as Brachiaria brizantha)
  
• braquiaria   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• bread grass   (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.)
  
• brizantão   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• palisade grass   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• palisade signal grass   (Source: F NAmer )
  
• Palisadengras   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• signal grass   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Animal food: forage   (fide Darwiniana 31:71. 1992)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2, as Brachiaria brizantha)
  

Distributional range:

Native:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Nigeria; Sierra Leone
  South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa [n. & e.]

Other:

• naturalized elsewhere, including s. United States (Texas)

References:

• Catasús Guerra, L. J. Cavanillesia Altera [= Brachiaria brizantha (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Stapf].
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986–. Flora of the Guianas. (F Guianas) [= Brachiaria brizantha (A. Rich) Stapf, introduced].
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Mannetje, L. 't & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 4:56–58. [= Brachiaria brizantha (A. Rich.) Stapf].
• Morrone, O. & F. O. Zuloaga. 1992. Revision de las especies sudamericanas nativas e introducidas de los generos Brachiaria y Urochloa (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae). Darwiniana 31:70.
• Morrone, O. & F. O. Zuloaga. 1993. Sinopsis del genero Urochloa (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae) para Mexico y America central. Darwiniana 32:64.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Veldkamp, J. F. 1997. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun. (Grass Camer) [= Brachiaria brizantha (A. Rich.) Stapf].
• 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.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Urochloa brizantha.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Urochloa brizantha. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Brachiaria brizantha (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Stapf
  (previously associated with 52 accessions)
• (≡) Panicum brizanthum Hochst. ex A. Rich. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)

Check other databases for Urochloa brizantha (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) R. D. Webster:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Inflorescence: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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