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

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

• (≡) Brachiaria humidicola (Rendle) Schweick.
• Basionym: Panicum humidicola Rendle

Common names:

• creeping signal grass  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• koronivia grass  (Source: Pl Res SEAs) - English

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: forage
• Environmental: erosion control (as Brachiaria humidicola)

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia, Sudan
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Democratic Republic of the Congo
• SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Namibia (n.), South Africa [KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal]


Cultivated

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Trinidad and Tobago
• BRAZIL: Brazil
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Colombia


Naturalized

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: United States [Puerto Rico]
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana
• BRAZIL: Brazil
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Colombia, Ecuador

References:

1. Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource).
2. Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
3. Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
4. Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58 Note: = Brachiaria humidicola (Rendle) Schweick.
5. Giraldo-Cañas, D. 2011. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49:139-247.
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 31:80-82.
7. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
8. Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
9. Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
10. 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 4:62. Note: = Brachiaria humidicola (Rendle) Schweick.
11. Veldkamp, J. F. 1996. Brachiaria, Urochloa (Gramineae - Paniceae) in Malesia. Blumea 41:418. Note: = Urochloa dictyoneura (Fig. & De Not.) Veldkamp
12. Plants of southern Africa: an online checklist. Note: = Brachiaria humidicola

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=401379. Accessed 1 July 2024.