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Taxon: Urochloa platyphylla (Munro ex C. Wright) R. D. Webster

Genus:

Urochloa

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Panicoideae

Tribe:

Paniceae

Subtribe:

Melinidinae

Nomen number:

401376

Place of publication:

Syst. Bot. 13:606. 1988

Link to protologue:

Comment:

since this name was originally based on Paspalum platyphyllum Griseb., an illegitimate later homonym (non Schult. 1827; Shenzhen ICN Art. 53), there is no parenthetical authorship (Shenzhen ICN Art. 58)

Name Verified on:

02-Mar-2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

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

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

(≡) Brachiaria platyphylla (Munro ex C. Wright) Nash
Basionym: Panicum platyphyllum Munro ex C. Wright
(≡) Paspalum platyphyllum Griseb.

Common names:

broadleaf signal grass (Source: AH 505) - English
white Para grass (Source: Darwiniana) - English

Economic Importance:

Weed:

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Missouri (s.), Oklahoma]
SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee]
SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]

Southern America

CARIBBEAN: Cuba
NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Venezuela
SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay

References:

FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
Morrone, O. & F. O. Zuloaga. 1992. Revisión de las especies sudamericanas nativas e introducidas de los géneros Brachiaria y Urochloa (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae). Darwiniana 31:74. Note: lists as Urochloa platyphylla (Nash) R. D. Webster
Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agricultural Handbook no. 505
Wofford, B. E. Database of Tennessee vascular plants (on-line resource). URL: https://herbarium.utk.edu/vascular/vascular-database.php?CategoryID=Monocots&FamilyID=Poaceae&GenusID=Urochloa&SpeciesID=platyphylla target='_blank'
2018. Mid-Atlantic invasive plant species (on-line resource)

Check other web resources for Urochloa platyphylla (Munro ex C. Wright) R. D. Webster :

PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
BONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:
Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
PubAg: USDA's National Agricultural Library database of full-text journal articles and citations on the agricultural sciences.

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=401376. Accessed 1 July 2024.