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:

AL*, FL*, MA*, NC*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• liverseed grass   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  
• sharp-flower signal grass   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• urochloa grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Darwiniana 31:94. 1992)
  

Distributional range:

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

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Cuba
  Southern South America: Argentina

References:

• Plants of southern Africa: an online checklist. [introduced].
• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Catasús Guerra, L. J. 2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1–163.
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Howell, C. J. & J. W. D. Sawyer. 2006. New Zealand naturalised vascular plant checklist.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Morrone, O. & F. O. Zuloaga. 1992. Revisión de las especies sudamericanas nativas e introducidas de los géneros Brachiaria y Urochloa (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae). Darwiniana 31:93–95.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• 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.
• 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.
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Veldkamp, J. F. 1996. Brachiaria, Urochloa (Gramineae - Paniceae) in Malesia. Blumea 41:433. [mentions].
• Villaseñor, J. L. & F. J. Espinoza-Garcia. 2004. The alien flowering plants of Mexico. Diversity & Distrib. 10:113–123.
• 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.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Urochloa panicoides.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Urochloa panicoides.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Urochloa panicoides.

Synonyms:

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

Check other web resources for Urochloa panicoides P. Beauv.:

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

• 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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