Taxon: Urochloa mutica (Forssk.) T. Q. Nguyen

Common names:

• buffalo grass   (Source: Blumea 41:425. 1996)
  
• Dutch grass   (Source: Blumea 41:425. 1996)
  
• giant couch   (Source: Blumea 41:425. 1996)
  
• herbe de Para   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• hierba de Pará   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• Mauritius grass   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 4:64. as Brachiaria mutica)
  
• Para grass   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• Paragras   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• paraná   (Source: Grass Cuba II as Brachiaria mutica)
  
• pasto Pará   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• Scotch grass   (Source: Blumea 41:425. 1996 but this adjective is best avoided, may cause offence in Scotland)
  
• Scottish grass   (Source: Blumea 41:425. 1996)
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:64. 1992, as Brachiaria mutica; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Animal food: fodder; forage   (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:64. 1992, as Brachiaria mutica; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Weed   (fide Weed CIBA, as Brachiaria mutica; Pl Res SEAs 4:64. 1992, as Brachiaria mutica; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

Distributional range:

• pantropic, naturalized in Asia, Australia, New Zealand, United States (including Hawaii), Mexico, Central America, South America, West Indies, Macaronesia, Mascarenes, Galapagos, Melanesia, & Polynesia, probable origin tropical Africa

References:

• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
• Catasús Guerra, L. J. Cavanillesia Altera [= Brachiaria mutica (Forssk.) Stapf].
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Harden, G. J., ed. 1990–1993. Flora of New South Wales. (F NSWales)
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed) [= Brachiaria mutica (Forssk.) Stapf].
• Mannetje, L. 't & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 4:64–65. [= Brachiaria mutica (Forssk.) Stapf].
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Morrone, O. & F. O. Zuloaga. 1992. Revision de las especies sudamericanas nativas e introducidas de los generos Brachiaria y Urochloa (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae). Darwiniana 31:88.
• Morrone, O. & F. O. Zuloaga. 1993. Sinopsis del genero Urochloa (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae) para Mexico y America central. Darwiniana 32:70.
• 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 41:424–425.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
• Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun. (Grass Camer) [= Brachiaria mutica (Forssk.) Stapf].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Urochloa mutica.

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

Synonyms:

• (≡) Brachiaria mutica (Forssk.) Stapf
  (previously associated with 7 accessions)
• (=) Panicum barbinode Trin.
  (previously associated with 5 accessions)
• (≡) Panicum muticum Forssk. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)
• (=) Panicum purpurascens Raddi
  (previously associated with 8 accessions)

Check other databases for Urochloa mutica (Forssk.) T. Q. Nguyen:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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:

• Fruit and seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• 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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