Summary
Place of publication:
Austral. Paniceae 234. 1987
Verified:
03/06/1995
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource).
- Cameron, A. G. et al. 1995. Performance of forages introduced into Kalimantan, Indonesia, by the South-East Asian Forage Seeds Project. Genet. Res. Commun. 21:2.
- Catasús Guerra, L. J. 2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1-163.
- Davidse, G. et al., eds. Flora mesoamericana. 1994
- Giraldo-Cañas, D. 2011. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49:139-247.
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- Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. 1993
- Morrone, O. & F. O. Zuloaga. 1992. Revisión de las especies sudamericanas nativas e introducidas de los géneros Brachiaria y Urochloa (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae). Darwiniana 31:72.
- Morrone, O. & F. O. Zuloaga. 1993. Sinopsis del genero Urochloa (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae) para Mexico y America central. Darwiniana 32:65.
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Common names
English
Basilisk signal grass – signal grass – Surinam grass – German
Surinamgras – Portuguese
braquiária – Spanish
pasto alambre – zacate Surinam –
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 | West-Central Tropical Africa | Burundi | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West-Central Tropical Africa | Rwanda | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West-Central Tropical Africa | Zaire | | |
2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Caribbean | Cuba | | |
2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Western South America | Colombia | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Costa Rica | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Northern South America | French Guiana | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Northern South America | Venezuela | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Southern South America | Paraguay | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Western South America | Colombia | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Western South America | Peru | | |
Native
Africa
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EAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
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WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA:
Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire
Cultivated
Southern America
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CARIBBEAN:
Cuba
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WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Colombia
Naturalized
Southern America
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BRAZIL:
Brazil
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MESOAMERICA:
Costa Rica
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NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
French Guiana, Venezuela
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SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Paraguay
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WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Colombia, Peru
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 31:72. |
Vertebrate poisons | mammals | | Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. 1993 |
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=401368.
Accessed 6 October 2024.