Urochloa
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Annuals or perennials. Leaves: lamina linear or lanceolate; ligule a line of hairs. Inflorescence of racemes borne upon a short common axis; spikelets single and abaxial or paired. Spikelets lanceolate to ovate, plano-convex, cuspidate to acuminate; lower glume mostly shorter than spikelet; upper glume as long as spikelet, usually membranous; lower floret male or sterile, lower lemma resembling upper glume; upper lemma obtuse, mucronate.
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:76
Specimens with Sequences:92
Specimens with Barcodes:73
Species:28
Species With Barcodes:26
Public Records:31
Public Species:21
Public BINs:0
Urochloa (common name signalgrass)[2] is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to Eurasia, Africa, Australia, Mexico, and the Pacific Islands.[3][4][5][6] Common names include signalgrass.[7][8][9]
- Species[10]
- Urochloa brachyura (Hack.) Stapf - E + S Africa
- Urochloa echinolaenoides Stapf - Zaïre , Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia
- Urochloa glumaris (Trin.) Veldkamp – Thurston grass - southern China, Southeast Asia, Indian subcon, islands of Pacific + Indian Oceans
- Urochloa longifolia B.S.Sun & Z.H.Hu - Yunnan
- Urochloa mosambicensis (Hack.) Dandy - Africa, Madagascar
- Urochloa oligotricha (Fig. & De Not.) Henrard - Africa
- Urochloa olivacea Sánchez-Ken - western Mexico (Colima, Nayarit)
- Urochloa panicoides P.Beauv. – panic liverseed grass - Africa, southern Asia
- Urochloa pauciflora Sánchez-Ken - western Mexico (Jalisco, Michoacán)
- Urochloa platyrrhachis C.E.Hubb. - Zambia, Zaïre
- Urochloa rudis Stapf - Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania
- Urochloa sclerochlaena Chiov - Ethiopia, Kenya
- Urochloa setigera (Retz.) Stapf - Indian subcon, southern China, Southeast Asia
- Urochloa trichopodioides (Mez & K.Schum.) S.M.Phillips & S.L.Chen - Zaïre , Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia
- Urochloa trichopus (Hochst.) Stapf - drier parts of Africa, Arabian Pen
- Urochloa venosa (Swallen) Morrone & Zuloaga - western Mexico (Michoacán)
- formerly included[10]
numerous species once considered members of Urochloa but now regarded as better suited to other genera: Alloteropsis Brachiaria Ixophorus Oplismenus Panicum Rupichloa
References[edit]
- ^ "Genus: Urochloa P. Beauv.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 1999-03-09. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
- ^ Atlas of Living Australia
- ^ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 52-53 descriptions in Latin, commentary in French
- ^ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plate XI (11), figure I (1) line drawings of flower parts of Urochloa panicoides
- ^ Urochloa. Grass Manual. Flora of North America.
- ^ Watson, L. and M. J. Dallwitz. Urochloa. The Grass Genera of the World. DELTA – DEscription Language for TAxonomy.
- ^ Urochloa. USDA PLANTS.
- ^ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 523 尾稃草属 wei fu cao shu Urochloa P. Beauvois, Ess. Agrostogr. 52. 1812.
- ^ Flora of Pakistan
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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