Taxon: Urochloa humidicola (Rendle) Morrone & Zuloaga

Common names:

• creeping signal grass   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• koronivia grass   (Source: Pl Res SEAs )
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:62. 1992, as Brachiaria humidicola)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide F Mesoamer)
  

Distributional range:

Native:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Zaire
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia [n.]; South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal

Other:

• naturalized elsewhere in tropics

References:

• Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs)
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana. (F Mesoamer)
• Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58. (Grass SAfr) [= Brachiaria humidicola (Rendle) Schweick.].
• 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. 1996. Brachiaria, Urochloa (Gramineae - Paniceae) in Malesia. Blumea 41:418. [= Urochloa dictyoneura (Fig. & De Not.) Veldkamp].

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Urochloa humidicola.

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

Synonyms:

• (≡) Brachiaria humidicola (Rendle) Schweick.
  (previously associated with 15 accessions)
• (≡) Panicum humidicola Rendle (basionym)
  

Check other databases for Urochloa humidicola (Rendle) Morrone & Zuloaga:

• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• 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.

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• 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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