Taxon: Urochloa panicoides P. Beauv.

A declared noxious weed by USDA-APHIS.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

FL*, MA*, NC*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• liverseed grass   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  
• sharp-flowered signal grass   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide USDA/APHIS; Darwiniana 31:94. 1992)
  

Distributional range:

      Native:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Yemen
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Pakistan

      Naturalized:

• naturalized elsewhere, including United States

References:

• Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
• Catasús Guerra, L. J. Cavanillesia Altera
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58. (Grass SAfr)
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
• Morrone, O. & F. O. Zuloaga. 1992. Revision de las especies sudamericanas nativas e introducidas de los generos Brachiaria y Urochloa (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae). Darwiniana 31:93–95.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia. (F Somalia)
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
• Veldkamp, J. F. 1996. Brachiaria, Urochloa (Gramineae - Paniceae) in Malesia. Blumea 41:433. [mentions].
• Wipff, J. K. et al. 1993. The genus Urochloa (Poaceae: Paniceae) in Texas, including one previously unreported species for the state. Sida 15:409.
• Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun. (Grass Camer)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Urochloa panicoides.

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

Synonyms:

• (=) Panicum helopus Trin.
  
• (=) Urochloa helopus (Trin.) Stapf
  

Check other databases for Urochloa panicoides P. Beauv.:

• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• 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
• 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:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing

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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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?40914 (09 February 2010)

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