Urochloa

Urochloa (common name signalgrass) is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to Eurasia, Africa, Australia, Mexico, and the Pacific Islands. Common names include signalgrass.

Contents

• Guinea grass panicum maximum syn urochloa maxima
• Paragrass urochloa mutica syn brachiaria mutica
• References

1. Urochloa brachyura (Hack.) Stapf - E + S Africa
2. Urochloa brizantha (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) R.Webster - native to tropical + S Africa; introduced and widely grown in S America + Pacific
3. Urochloa echinolaenoides Stapf - Zaïre, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia
4. Urochloa fusca B.F. Hansen & Wunderlin Browntop signalgrass - southern United States to Argentina
5. Urochloa glumaris (Trin.) Veldkamp – Thurston grass - southern China, Southeast Asia, Indian subcon, islands of Pacific + Indian Oceans
6. Urochloa longifolia B.S.Sun & Z.H.Hu - Yunnan
7. Urochloa mosambicensis (Hack.) Dandy - Africa, Madagascar
8. Urochloa oligotricha (Fig. & De Not.) Henrard - Africa
9. Urochloa olivacea Sánchez-Ken - western Mexico (Colima, Nayarit)
10. Urochloa panicoides P.Beauv. – panic liverseed grass - Africa, southern Asia
11. Urochloa pauciflora Sánchez-Ken - western Mexico (Jalisco, Michoacán)
12. Urochloa platyrrhachis C.E.Hubb. - Zambia, Zaïre
13. Urochloa rudis Stapf - Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania
14. Urochloa sclerochlaena Chiov - Ethiopia, Kenya
15. Urochloa setigera (Retz.) Stapf - Indian subcon, southern China, Southeast Asia
16. Urochloa trichopodioides (Mez & K.Schum.) S.M.Phillips & S.L.Chen - Zaïre, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia
17. Urochloa trichopus (Hochst.) Stapf - drier parts of Africa, Arabian Pen
18. Urochloa venosa (Swallen) Morrone & Zuloaga - western Mexico (Michoacán)

Numerous species once considered members of Urochloa but now regarded as better suited to other genera: Alloteropsis Brachiaria Ixophorus Oplismenus Panicum Rupichloa