Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Brachiaria platyphylla (Munro ex C. Wright) Nash


POACEAE Family selection - Grass family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Brachiaria platyphylla (Munro ex C. Wright) Nash Taxon selection
Rank: species
See: ► Urochloa platyphylla (Munro ex C. Wright) R.D. Webster

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Broadleaf signalgrass
en English name: broadleaf signal grass
English name: white Para grass

Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Annual
 

Synonyms:
= Urochloa platyphylla (Munro ex C. Wright) R.D. Webster
= Brachiaria extensa Chase
= Paspalum platyphyllum Griseb., non Schult.



TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Commelinidae
Order: Cyperales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Brachiaria
Species:


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Brachiaria platyphylla
Brachiaria platyphylla
Robert H. Mohlenbrock USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA SCS. 1991. Southern wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. South National Technical Center, Fort Worth. - Not copyrighted image

Brachiaria platyphylla
Brachiaria platyphylla
Robert H. Mohlenbrock USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA SCS. 1991. Southern wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. South National Technical Center, Fort Worth. - Not copyrighted image

Brachiaria platyphylla
Brachiaria platyphylla
Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. Washington, DC. - Non-Copyrighted Image


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AR, AZ, FL, GA, IL, KY, LA, MD, MO, MS, NC, OK, SC, TN, TX, VA)

Distributional map for Brachiaria platyphylla (Munro ex C. Wright) Nash
Map for Brachiaria platyphylla (Munro ex C. Wright) Nash
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA



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