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Taxon: Urochloa glumaris (Trin.) Veldkamp

 
Genus: Urochloa
Family: Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Tribe: Paniceae
Subtribe: Melinidinae
Nomen number: 431354
Place of publication: Blumea 41:420. 1996
Link to protologue:
Name Verified on: 28-Feb-2003 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)

Common names:

  • Thurston grass  (Source: F Viti) - English
  • que bai wei fu cao  (Source: F ChinaEng) - Chinese

Economic Importance:

  • Animal food: fodder
  • Environmental: lawn/turf

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Asia-Temperate
    • CHINA: China [Yunnan Sheng, Hainan Sheng]

    Asia-Tropical
    • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, [Assam, Arunachal Pradesh] Sri Lanka
    • PAPUASIA: Papua New Guinea
    • INDO-CHINA: Myanmar
    • MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines

    Pacific
    • SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: New Caledonia


    Cultivated (also cult.)

References:

  1. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  2. Smith, A. C. 1979-1991. Flora vitiensis nova. Note: = Brachiaria paspaloides
  3. Veldkamp, J. F. 1996. Brachiaria, Urochloa (Gramineae - Paniceae) in Malesia. Blumea 41:420-422.

Check other web resources for Urochloa glumaris (Trin.) Veldkamp :

  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • 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=431354. Accessed 1 July 2024.