Taxon: Urochloa ramosa (L.) T. Q. Nguyen

Common names:

• browntop millet   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: cereal   (fide Econ Bot 54:217-227. 2000, as Brachiaria ramosa)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Grass VarUSA; Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Weed   (fide Use Pl WT Afr, as Brachiaria ramosa)
  

Distributional range:

Native:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon
  West Tropical Africa: Gambia; Guinea-Bissau; Mali; Mauritania; Nigeria; Senegal
  South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique; Zimbabwe
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia; Yemen
  Western Asia: Afghanistan
  China: China - Hainan, Yunnan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Indochina; Myanmar; Thailand

Other:

• naturalized throughout tropics & subtropics, including s.e. United States

References:

• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. (Grass VarUSA) [= Brachiaria ramosa (L.) Stapf].
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators. (NRCS Cons Pl Mat)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Kimata, M. et al. 2000. Domestication, cultivation and utilization of two small millets, Brachiaria ramosa and Setaria glauca, Poaceae in South India. Econ. Bot. 54:217–227. [= Brachiaria ramosa (L.) Stapf].
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Veldkamp, J. F. 1996. Brachiaria, Urochloa (Gramineae - Paniceae) in Malesia. Blumea 41:427.
• Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun. (Grass Camer) [lists as U. ramosa (L.) R. D. Webster; = Brachiaria ramosa (L.) Stapf].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Urochloa ramosa.

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

Synonyms:

• (≡) Brachiaria ramosa (L.) Stapf
  (previously associated with 13 accessions)
• (≡) Panicum ramosum L. (basionym)
  

Check other databases for Urochloa ramosa (L.) T. Q. Nguyen:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.
• Fruit and seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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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