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Urochloa

P.Beauv. (1812)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Monocots Order: Poales Family: Poaceae Genus: Urochloa

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Annuals or perennials.

Stems: Culms often decumbent and rooting at nodes.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Margins entire. Veins parallel. Sheathing. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescence a panicle of several to numerous slender racemes on a central rachis, racemes rarely secondarily branched and bearing short fascicles of spikelets; spikelets usually solitary or paired, short–pedicellate, disarticulating below glumes, dorsally compressed, ovate–obovate, plano-convex or biconvex; first glume turned toward rachis, shorter than spikelet, 1–nerved to many–nerved; second glume and sterile lemma subequal, as long as the spikelet, 5–9–nerved; sterile or staminate floret with the lemma similar to second glume and a well developed palea; fertile floret shorter than second glume and sterile or staminate lemma, cartilaginous or rigid, rugulose or striate, lemma elliptic or obovate, margins incurved over the keels of the equal palea. Stamens 3. Ovary superior.

Fruit: Caryopsis elliptic; dorsally flattened embryo large.

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Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Island Status

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Ess. Agrostogr.: 52 (1812)

Occurrences

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