Brachiaria, or signalgrass, is a genus of plants in the grass family native to tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, Africa, Australia, southern Europe, the Americas, and various islands.[4] There are over 100 species.[4][5][6]
Some species are cultivated as forage. Some species of Brachiaria were probably first introduced unintentionally to the Americas in the colonial period, from slave ships. B. decumbens was introduced to Brazil in 1952 and B. ruziziensis in the 1960s. Brachiaria is the most widely used tropical grass in Central and South America, with about 40 million hectares planted in Brazil alone.[7]
^Grisebach, August Heinrich Rudolf. 1853. In C.F.von Ledebour (editor), Flora Rossica; sive, Enumeratio plantarum in totius Imperii Rossici provinciis Europaeis, Asiaticis et Americanis hucusque observatarum 4(14): 469 in Latin
^Tropicos, Brachiaria (Trin.) Griseb.
^Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ abFlora of China Vol. 22 Page 520 臂形草属 bi xing cao shu Brachiaria (Trinius) Grisebach, Ledebour, Fl. Ross. 4: 469. 1853. Flora of China.
^Utsunomiya, KS; Pagliarini, MS; Do Valle, CB (2005). "Microsporogenesis in tetraploid accessions of Brachiaria nigropedata (Ficalho & Hiern) Stapf (Gramineae)". Biocell. 29 (3): 295–301. doi:10.32604/biocell.2005.29.295. PMID 16524251.
^Mendes-Bonato, AB; Risso-Pascotto, C; Pagliarini, MS; Valle, CB (2006). "Chromosome number and meiotic behaviour in Brachiaria jubata (Gramineae)" (PDF). Journal of Genetics. 85 (1): 83–7. doi:10.1007/BF02728976. PMID 16809846. S2CID 13416450.
^Kumble, Vrinda (1996). Brachiaria: Biology, Agronomy, and Improvement. CIAT.
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