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

Common names:

• browntop millet   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• panico ramoso   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• ke-niku-kibi   (Source: Pl Names ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  

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:

• 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: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Malaysia

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico
  United States [s.e.]

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India

References:

• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. [= Brachiaria ramosa (L.) Stapf].
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• 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.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
• Veldkamp, J. F. 1996. Brachiaria, Urochloa (Gramineae - Paniceae) in Malesia. Blumea 41:427.
• Villaseñor, J. L. & F. J. Espinoza-Garcia. 2004. The alien flowering plants of Mexico. Diversity & Distrib. 49:139–247.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). [= Brachiaria ramosa (L.) Stapf].
• Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun. [lists as U. ramosa (L.) R. D. Webster; = Brachiaria ramosa (L.) 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. 46:633.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Urochloa ramosa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Urochloa ramosa.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Urochloa ramosa.

Synonyms:

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

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

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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
• AusGrass2: Australian grass data from Bryan K. Simon’s on-line database
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: 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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