Summary
Place of publication:
J. Arnold Arbor. suppl. ser., 1:269. 1991
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).
- Catasús Guerra, L. J. 2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1-163.
- Davidse, G. et al., eds. Flora mesoamericana. 1994
- Morrone, O. & F. O. Zuloaga. 1992. Revisión de las especies sudamericanas nativas e introducidas de los géneros Brachiaria y Urochloa (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae). Darwiniana 31:101-102.
- Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
- Randall, R. P. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status. 2007
- Veldkamp, J. F. 1996. Brachiaria, Urochloa (Gramineae - Paniceae) in Malesia. Blumea 41:429.
- Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:634.
Common names
English
Congo grass – Congo signal grass – ruzi grass –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
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 | Southern South America | Argentina | | |
4 | Naturalized | Australasia | Australia | Australia | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | Puerto Rico | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | | |
Native
Africa
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WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA:
Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire
Cultivated
Southern America
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SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Argentina
Naturalized
Australasia
Southern America
-
BRAZIL:
Brazil
-
CARIBBEAN:
Puerto Rico
-
SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Argentina
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 31:101-102. |
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=401381.
Accessed 6 October 2024.