Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

• (≡) Brachiaria brizantha (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Stapf
• Basionym: Panicum brizanthum Hochst. ex A. Rich.

Common names:

• bread grass  (Source: pers. comm.) - English
• palisade grass  (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
• palisade signal grass  (Source: F NAmer) - English
• signal grass  (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
• Palisadengras  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• braquiarão  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• braquiária  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• braquiária-do-morro  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• brizantão  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• capim-marandu  (Source: Pesq Agropec Bras) - Portuguese (Brazil)

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: forage (fide Darwiniana 31:71. 1992)
• Medicines: folklore (as Brachiaria brizantha)

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Sierra Leone
• SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Namibia, South Africa (n. & e.)


Cultivated

Southern America

• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Venezuela
• BRAZIL: Brazil
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina


Naturalized

Northern America

• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Trinidad and Tobago
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Honduras
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Venezuela
• BRAZIL: Brazil
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina

References:

1. Catasús Guerra, L. J. 2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1-163. Note: = Brachiaria brizantha (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Stapf
2. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
3. Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986-. Flora of the Guianas. Note: = Brachiaria brizantha (A. Rich) Stapf, introduced
4. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Morrone, O. & F. O. Zuloaga. 1993. Sinopsis del genero Urochloa (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae) para Mexico y America central. Darwiniana 32:64.
8. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
9. Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
10. Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
11. 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 4:56-58. Note: = Brachiaria brizantha (A. Rich.) Stapf
12. Veldkamp, J. F. 1997. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
13. Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource).
14. Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun Note: = Brachiaria brizantha (A. Rich.) Stapf
15. Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:630.
16. Plants of southern Africa: an online checklist. Note: = Brachiaria brizantha (A. Rich.) Stapf

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=401367. Accessed 1 July 2024.