Urochloa

Urochloa
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|name = Signalgrass
|image = Urochloa mosambicensis flowerhead15 NWP - Flickr - Macleay Grass Man.jpg
|image_caption = Urochloa mosambicensis
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|taxon = Urochloa
|authority = P.Beauv.
|type_species = Urochloa panicoides
|type_species_authority = P.Beauv.
|synonyms_ref = <ref name="Powo">{{cite web |title=Urochloa P.Beauv. Plants of the World Online Kew Science' |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30010413-2#synonyms |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=4 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
|synonyms = *Brachiaria Leucophrys Pseudobrachiaria
}}Urochloa is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to Eurasia, Africa, Australia, Mexico, and the Pacific Islands.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 panicoidesWatson, L. and M. J. Dallwitz. Urochloa. The Grass Genera of the World. DELTA – DEscription Language for TAxonomy. Common names include signalgrass.Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 523 尾稃草属 wei fu cao shu Urochloa P. Beauvois, Ess. Agrostogr. 52. 1812. Atlas of Living Australia
Species
87 species have been accepted by Plants of the World Online (in 2023),
Urochloa adspersa
Urochloa advena
Urochloa albicoma
Urochloa argentea
Urochloa arida
Urochloa arizonica
Urochloa arrecta
Urochloa atrisola
Urochloa bovonei
Urochloa brachyura (Hack.) Stapf - E + S Africa
Urochloa brevispicata
Urochloa brizantha (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) R.Webster - tropical + S Africa
Urochloa burmanica
Urochloa caboverdiana
Urochloa chusqueoides
Urochloa ciliatissima
Urochloa clavipila
Urochloa comata
Urochloa deflexa
Urochloa dictyoneura
Urochloa distachyoides
Urochloa distachyos
Urochloa dura
Urochloa echinolaenoides - Zaïre, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia
Urochloa eminii
Urochloa falcifera
Urochloa foliosa
Urochloa fusca B.F. Hansen & Wunderlin (browntop signalgrass) - southern USA to Argentina
Urochloa fusiformis
Urochloa gilesii
Urochloa glumaris (Trin.) Veldkamp (Thurston grass) - SE Asia, Indian subcon
Urochloa holosericea
Urochloa jaliscana
Urochloa jubata
Urochloa kurzii
Urochloa lachnantha
Urochloa lata
Urochloa leersioides
Urochloa lorentziana
Urochloa megastachya
Urochloa meziana
Urochloa mollis
Urochloa multiculma
Urochloa mutica
Urochloa nigropedata
Urochloa notochthona
Urochloa oblita
Urochloa occidentalis
Urochloa oligobrachiata
Urochloa oligotricha (Fig. & De Not.) Henrard - Africa
Urochloa olivacea Sánchez-Ken - western Mexico
Urochloa ophryodes
Urochloa orthostachys
Urochloa ovalis
Urochloa panicoides P.Beauv. (panic liverseed grass) - Africa, S. Asia
Urochloa pauciflora Sánchez-Ken - W. Mexico
Urochloa paucispicata
Urochloa piligera
Urochloa plantaginea
Urochloa platynota
Urochloa platyphylla
Urochloa platyrrhachis C.E.Hubb. - Zambia, Zaïre
Urochloa polyphylla
Urochloa polystachya
Urochloa praetervisa
Urochloa pubigera
Urochloa ramosa
Urochloa reptans
Urochloa reticulata
Urochloa rudis Stapf - Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania
Urochloa rugulosa
Urochloa sclerochlaena Chiov - Ethiopia, Kenya
Urochloa semiundulata
Urochloa serrata
Urochloa serrifolia
Urochloa setigera (Retz.) Stapf - Indian subcon, S. China, SE. Asia
Urochloa stigmatisata
Urochloa subulifolia
Urochloa tanimbarensis
Urochloa texana
Urochloa trichopodioides (Mez & K.Schum.) S.M.Phillips & S.L.Chen - Zaïre, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia
Urochloa trichopus (Hochst.) Stapf - Africa, Arabian Pen
Urochloa turbinata
Urochloa villosa
Urochloa whiteana
Urochloa wittei
Urochloa xantholeuca
Formerly included
Numerous species once considered members of Urochloa but are now regarded as better suited to other genera, such as Alloteropsis, Brachiaria, Ixophorus, Oplismenus, Panicum, and Rupichloa''.
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Panicoideae
Poaceae genera
Grasses of Africa
Grasses of Asia
Grasses of Europe
Grasses of North America
Grasses of Oceania
Grasses of South America
Taxa named by Palisot de Beauvois
Plants described in 1812
Cereals