Summary
Place of publication:
Austral. Paniceae 233. 1987
Verified:
03/06/1995
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Catasús Guerra, L. J. 2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1-163.
- FNA Editorial Committee. Flora of North America. 1993-
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- Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm.
- Lara S., M. A. & C. G. S. Pedreira. 2011. Estimativa da assimilação de carbono em dosséis de espécies de braquiária. Pesq. Agropecu. Brasil. 46:743-750.
- Morrone, O. & F. O. Zuloaga. 1992. Revisión de las especies sudamericanas nativas e introducidas de los géneros Brachiaria y Urochloa (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae). Darwiniana 31:70.
- Morrone, O. & F. O. Zuloaga. 1993. Sinopsis del genero Urochloa (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae) para Mexico y America central. Darwiniana 32:64.
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Common names
English
bread grass – palisade grass – palisade signal grass – signal grass – German
Palisadengras – Portuguese (Brazil)
braquiária – braquiária-do-morro – braquiarão – brizantão – capim-marandu –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Africa | East Tropical Africa | Kenya | | |
1 | Native | Africa | East Tropical Africa | Tanzania | | |
1 | Native | Africa | East Tropical Africa | Uganda | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Northeast Tropical Africa | Ethiopia | | |
1 | Native | Africa | South Tropical Africa | Malawi | | |
1 | Native | Africa | South Tropical Africa | Mozambique | | |
1 | Native | Africa | South Tropical Africa | Zambia | | |
1 | Native | Africa | South Tropical Africa | Zimbabwe | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Southern Africa | Botswana | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Southern Africa | Namibia | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Southern Africa | South Africa | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Côte D'Ivoire | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Ghana | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Guinea | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Nigeria | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Sierra Leone | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West-Central Tropical Africa | Cameroon | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West-Central Tropical Africa | Zaire | | |
2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | | |
2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Northern South America | Venezuela | | |
2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | | |
4 | Naturalized | Northern America | South-Central U.S.A. | United States | Texas | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | Trinidad and Tobago | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Honduras | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Northern South America | French Guiana | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Northern South America | Venezuela | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Western South America | Bolivia | | |
Native
Africa
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EAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
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NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Ethiopia
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SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA:
Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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SOUTHERN AFRICA:
Botswana, Namibia, South Africa
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WEST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Côte D'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Sierra Leone
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WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA:
Cameroon, Zaire
Cultivated
Southern America
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BRAZIL:
Brazil
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NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Venezuela
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SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Argentina
Naturalized
Northern America
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SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.:
United States [Texas]
Southern America
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BRAZIL:
Brazil
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CARIBBEAN:
Trinidad and Tobago
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MESOAMERICA:
Honduras
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NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
French Guiana, Venezuela
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SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Argentina
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WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Bolivia
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Animal food | forage | | Morrone, O. & F. O. Zuloaga. 1992. Revisión de las especies sudamericanas nativas e introducidas de los géneros Brachiaria y Urochloa (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae). Darwiniana 31:70. |
Medicines | folklore | | McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 |
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System.
2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network
(GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=401367.
Accessed 6 October 2024.