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

• the 17 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• buffalo grass   (Source: Blumea 41:425. 1996) – English
  
• Dutch grass   (Source: Blumea 41:425. 1996) – English
  
• giant couch   (Source: Blumea 41:425. 1996) – English
  
• Mauritius grass   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 4:64. [as Brachiaria mutica]) – English
  
• Para grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Scotch grass   (Source: Blumea 41:425. 1996 [but this adjective is best avoided, may cause offence in Scotland]) – English
  
• Scottish grass   (Source: Blumea 41:425. 1996) – English
  
• herbe de Para   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Paragras   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• para-gurasu   (Source: F Okin [as Brachiaria mutica]) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• hierba de Pará   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• paraná   (Source: Grass Cuba II [as Brachiaria mutica]) – Spanish
  
• pasto Pará   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

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

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indo-China: Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico
  United States
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Marshall Islands
  South-Central Pacific: Cook Islands; French Polynesia
  Southwestern Pacific: American Samoa; Fiji; New Caledonia; Tonga
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Cayman Islands; Cuba; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Virgin Islands (U.S.) - St. Croix
  Mesoamerica: Central America; Costa Rica; Honduras; Panama
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador [incl. Galapagos Is.]; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Colombia
  Southern South America: Argentina

• probable origin tropical Africa

References:

• 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 4:64–65. [= Brachiaria mutica (Forssk.) Stapf].
• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource).
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Catasús Guerra, L. J. 2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1–163. [= Brachiaria mutica (Forssk.) Stapf].
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Giraldo-Cañas, D. 2011. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49:139–247.
• Hammel, B. E. et al., eds. 2003–. Manual de plantas de Costa Rica.
• Harden, G. J., ed. 1990–1993. Flora of New South Wales.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. [= Brachiaria mutica (Forssk.) Stapf].
• Howell, C. J. & J. W. D. Sawyer. 2006. New Zealand naturalised vascular plant checklist.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Morrone, O. & F. O. Zuloaga. 1992. Revisión de las especies sudamericanas nativas e introducidas de los géneros 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).
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Veldkamp, J. F. 1996. Brachiaria, Urochloa (Gramineae - Paniceae) in Malesia. Blumea 41:424–425.
• Villaseñor, J. L. & F. J. Espinoza-Garcia. 2004. The alien flowering plants of Mexico. Diversity & Distrib. 10:113–123.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource).
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun. [= 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.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Urochloa mutica.

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 web resources for Urochloa mutica (Forssk.) 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 del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• 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:

• Inflorescence branch: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: 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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