Taxon: Urochloa ruziziensis (R. Germ. & C. M. Evrard) Crins

Common names:

• Congo grass   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 4:65.)
  
• Congo signal grass   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 4:65.)
  
• ruzi grass   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Animal food: forage   (fide F Mesoamer; Darwiniana 31:102. 1992)
  

Distributional range:

Native:

• AFRICA
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Rwanda; Zaire

Other:

• naturalized elsewhere in tropics

References:

• Catasús Guerra, L. J. Cavanillesia Altera [= Brachiaria ruzuziensis Germain & Evrard].
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana. (F Mesoamer)
• Morrone, O. & F. O. Zuloaga. 1992. Revision de las especies sudamericanas nativas e introducidas de los generos Brachiaria y Urochloa (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae). Darwiniana 31:101–102.
• 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 41:429.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:634.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Urochloa ruziziensis.

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

Synonyms:

• (≡) Brachiaria ruziziensis R. Germ. & C. M. Evrard (basionym)
  (previously associated with 14 accessions)

Check other databases for Urochloa ruziziensis (R. Germ. & C. M. Evrard) Crins:

• 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:

• 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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