Taxon: Urochloa fusca (Sw.) B. F. Hansen & Wunderlin

Common names:

• browntop signal grass   (Source: F NAmer )
  
• milha   (Source: Darwiniana 31:78. as U. fasciculata)
  
• milha roxa   (Source: Darwiniana 31:78. as U. fasciculata)
  
• súrbana   (Source: Grass Cuba II as Brachiaria fasciculata)
  
• surbana   (Source: Darwiniana 31:78. as U. fasciculata)
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Animal food: forage   (fide Darwiniana 31:78. 1992, as Urochloa fasciculata)
  
• Weed   (fide Weed CIBA, as Urochloa fasciculata)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Florida, Louisiana
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Caribbean: Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Barbados; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Trinidad and Tobago
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Paraguay

References:

• Boggan, J. et al. 1997. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2. (L Guianas ed2) [= Brachiaria fasciculata (Sw.) Parodi].
• Catasús Guerra, L. J. Cavanillesia Altera [= Brachiaria fasciculata (Sw.) Parodi].
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Malezasdemexico. Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Wunderlin, R. & B. Hansen. Atlas of Florida vascular plants - on-line version. (Atlas Florida)
• Wunderlin, R. P. & B. F. Hansen. 2001. Seven new combinations in the Florida flora. Novon 11:368.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:631.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Urochloa fusca.

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

Synonyms:

• (=) Brachiaria fasciculata (Sw.) Parodi
  (previously associated with 10 accessions)
• (=) Panicum fasciculatum Sw.
  (previously associated with 12 accessions)
• (=) Urochloa fasciculata (Sw.) R. D. Webster ex Morrone & Zuloaga
  (previously associated with 12 accessions)

Check other databases for Urochloa fusca (Sw.) B. F. Hansen & Wunderlin:

• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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
• 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.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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