Urochloa fusca: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Poales
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Urochloa
- Species
- Urochloa fusca
- Scientific Name
- Urochloa fusca
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Urochloa fusca
Urochloa fusca, the browntop signalgrass, is a wild grass species with a native range extending from Paraguay in South America to the southern United States (Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma), and it is now found as a weed in Australia. The species is diploid, with a base chromosome number of 9, and utilizes the PCK enzymatic subtype of C4 photosynthesis. Based on a molecular phylogeny of the genus Urochloa, the closest relatives of U. fusca are Urochloa arizonica and Urochloa mollis The genome of U. fusca is currently being sequenced by the Joint Genome Institute.
...Urochloa fusca in languages:
- English
- Browntop Signalgrass
- Swedish
- knipphirs
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Urochloa adspersa
- Urochloa arizonica
- Urochloa arrecta
- Urochloa bovonei
- Urochloa brachyura
- Urochloa brizantha
- Urochloa chusqueoides
- Urochloa ciliatissima
- Urochloa comata
- Urochloa deflexa
- Urochloa dictyoneura
- Urochloa distachya
- Urochloa dura
- Urochloa eminii
- Urochloa foliosa
- Urochloa fusca
- Urochloa fusiformis
- Urochloa gilesii
- Urochloa glumaris
- Urochloa holosericea
- Urochloa jaliscana
- Urochloa jubata
- Urochloa lachnantha
- Urochloa lata
- Urochloa leersioides
- Urochloa meziana
- Urochloa mollis
- Urochloa mosambicensis
- Urochloa multiculma
- Urochloa mutica
- Urochloa nigropedata
- Urochloa oblita
- Urochloa oligotricha
- Urochloa olivacea
- Urochloa ophryodes
- Urochloa panicoides
- Urochloa pauciflora
- Urochloa piligera
- Urochloa plantaginea
- Urochloa platyphylla
- Urochloa polystachya
- Urochloa praetervisa
- Urochloa pubigera
- Urochloa ramosa
- Urochloa reptans
- Urochloa serrata
- Urochloa subquadripara
- Urochloa subulifolia
- Urochloa texana
- Urochloa trichopus
- Urochloa villosa
- Urochloa xantholeuca































































































































































