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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Brachiaria

Hierarchical position of the Genus Brachiaria

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Liliopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843. common name: Monocots       Subclassis  Commelinidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 171. Jan-Mar 1967. common name: Grasses, Sedges, Rushes       SuperOrdo  Juncanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 510. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Poales Small pub. Fl. S.E. U.S.: 48. 1903.       Familia  Poaceae (R. Br.) Barnh. pub. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 7. 15 Jan 1895, nom. cons. common name: Gramineae       Familia  Gramineae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 28. 4 Aug 1789, nom. cons.       Genus  Brachiaria (Trin.) Griseb. common name: signalgrass

Named members of the Genus Brachiaria

1	Species  adspersa (Trin.) Parodi syn. Urochloa adspersa
2	Species  annulatum (Forsk.) Stapf common name: ringed signalgrass
3	Species  arizonica (Scribn. & Merr.) S.T. Blake syn. Urochloa arizonica
4	Species  arrecta (Hack. ex T. Dur. & Schinz) Stent syn. Urochloa arrecta
5	Species  brizantha (C. Hochstetter ex A. Rich.) Stapf syn. Urochloa brizantha
6	Species  ciliatissima (Buckl.) Chase syn. Urochloa ciliatissima
7	Species  decumbens Stapf syn. Urochloa brizantha
8	Species  deflexa (Schumacher) C. E. Hubb. ex Robyns common name: deflexed brachiaria
9	Species  distichophylla (Trin.) Stapf syn. Urochloa villosa
10	Species  echinulata (Mez) Parodi syn. Urochloa adspersa
11	Species  eruciformis (Sm.) Griseb. common name: sweet signalgrass
12	Species  extensa Chase syn. Urochloa platyphylla
13	Species  fasciculata (Sw.) Parodi
	14    Varietas  reticulata (Torr.) Beetle syn. Urochloa fasciculata
15	Species  mutica (Forsk.) Stapf syn. Urochloa mutica
16	Species  oligobrachiata (Pilger) Henr. syn. Urochloa oligobrachiata
17	Species  piligera (F. Muell. ex Benth.) D.K. Hughes syn. Urochloa piligera
18	Species  plantaginea (Link) A.S. Hitchc. syn. Urochloa plantaginea
19	Species  platyphylla (Munro ex Wright) Nash syn. Urochloa platyphylla
20	Species  platytaenia Stapf syn. Urochloa oligobrachiata
21	Species  purpurascens (Raddi) Henr. syn. Urochloa mutica
22	Species  ramosa (L.) Stapf syn. Urochloa ramosa
23	Species  reptans (L.) Gard. & C.E. Hubbard syn. Urochloa reptans
24	Species  ruziziensis Germ. & Evrard syn. Urochloa brizantha
25	Species  subquadripara (Trin.) A.S. Hitchc.
	26    Varietas  piligera (F. Muell. ex Benth.) Reeder syn. Urochloa piligera
27	Species  texana (Buckl.) S.T. Blake syn. Urochloa texana

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.