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

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

• (=) Brachiaria miliiformis (J. Presl) Chase
• (≡) Brachiaria subquadripara (Trin.) Hitchc.
• (=) Panicum miliiformis J. Presl
• Basionym: Panicum subquadriparum Trin.

Common names:

• armgrass millet  (Source: Blumea) - English
• cori grass  (Source: Pl Res SEAs) - English
• green summer grass  (Source: F NSWales) - English
• niku-kibi  (Source: F Okin) - Japanese Rōmaji

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: forage (as Brachiaria subquadripara)
• Environmental:
• Weed:

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

• CHINA: China [Fujian Sheng, Hunan Sheng, Jiangxi Sheng, Guangdong Sheng, Guizhou Sheng, Yunnan Sheng, Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu]
• EASTERN ASIA: Japan, [Ryukyu Islands] Taiwan

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, [Assam, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal] Nepal, Sri Lanka
• PAPUASIA: Papua New Guinea
• INDO-CHINA: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
• MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Territory]


Naturalized

Northern America

• Mexico, United States (s.e.)

References:

1. Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource). Note: = Urochloa distachya (L.) T. Q. Nguyen
2. Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980-. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. Note: = Brachiaria subquadripara (Trin.) Hitchc.
3. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
4. Harden, G. J., ed. 1990-1993. Flora of New South Wales.
5. Morrone, O. & F. O. Zuloaga. 1992. Revisión de las especies sudamericanas nativas e introducidas de los géneros Brachiaria y Urochloa (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae). Darwiniana 31:73. Note: = Urochloa distachya (L.) T. Q. Nguyen
6. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
7. Veldkamp, J. F. 1996. Brachiaria, Urochloa (Gramineae - Paniceae) in Malesia. Blumea 41:429-431.
8. Villaseñor, J. L. & F. J. Espinoza-Garcia. 2004. The alien flowering plants of Mexico. Diversity & Distrib. 49:129-247.
9. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition). Note: = Brachiaria subquadripara

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=405750. Accessed 1 July 2024.