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

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

• (=) Brachiaria fasciculata (Sw.) Parodi
• (=) Panicum fasciculatum Sw.
• (=) Urochloa fasciculata (Sw.) R. D. Webster ex Morrone & Zuloaga

Common names:

• browntop signal grass  (Source: F NAmer) - English
• milha  (Source: Darwiniana) - Spanish
• milha roxa  (Source: Darwiniana) - Spanish
• súrbana  (Source: Cavanillesia Alt) - Spanish

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: forage (as Urochloa fasciculata)
• Weed:

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Florida (http://www.plantatlas.usf.edu/details.asp?plantID=3348), Louisiana]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico, Texas]
• SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona]
• Mexico

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States [Puerto Rico]
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
• BRAZIL: Brazil
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Paraguay

References:

1. Boggan, J. et al. 1997. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2 Note: = Brachiaria fasciculata (Sw.) Parodi
2. Catasús Guerra, L. J. 2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1-163. Note: = Brachiaria fasciculata (Sw.) Parodi
3. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
4. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
5. Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource). URL: http://www.conabio.gob.mx/malezasdemexico/poaceae/urochloa-fasciculata/fichas/pagina1.htm target='_blank'
6. Wunderlin, R. & B. Hansen. Atlas of Florida vascular plants (on-line resource).
7. Wunderlin, R. P. & B. F. Hansen. 2001. Seven new combinations in the Florida flora. Novon 11:368.
8. Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:631.

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=419492. Accessed 1 July 2024.