''Urochloa'' is a genus of plants in the

grass family Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns and ...

, native to Eurasia, Africa,

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.''Urochloa''.
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The Grass Genera of the World. DELTA – DEscription Language for TAxonomy. Common names include signalgrass.''Urochloa''.
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/ref> * '' Urochloa brachyura'' (Hack.) Stapf - E + S Africa * '' Urochloa brizantha'' (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) R.Webster - native to tropical + S Africa; introduced and widely grown in S America + Pacific * '' Urochloa echinolaenoides'' Stapf - Zaïre, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia * ''

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 ...

'' B.F. Hansen & Wunderlin browntop signalgrass - southern United States to Argentina * '' Urochloa glumaris'' (Trin.) Veldkamp – Thurston grass - southern China, Southeast Asia, Indian subcon, islands of Pacific + Indian Oceans * '' Urochloa longifolia'' B.S.Sun & Z.H.Hu - Yunnan * '' Urochloa mosambicensis'' (Hack.) Dandy - Africa, Madagascar * '' Urochloa oligotricha'' (Fig. & De Not.) Henrard - Africa * '' Urochloa olivacea'' Sánchez-Ken - western Mexico ( Colima, Nayarit) * '' Urochloa panicoides'' P.Beauv. – panic liverseed grass - Africa, southern Asia * '' Urochloa pauciflora'' Sánchez-Ken - western Mexico (

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) * '' Urochloa platyrrhachis'' C.E.Hubb. - Zambia, Zaïre * '' Urochloa rudis'' Stapf - Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania * ''

Urochloa sclerochlaena ''Urochloa'' is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to Eurasia, Africa, Australia, Mexico, and the Pacific Islands.

'' Chiov - Ethiopia, Kenya * ''

Urochloa setigera ''Urochloa'' is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to Eurasia, Africa, Australia, Mexico, and the Pacific Islands.

'' (Retz.) Stapf - Indian subcon, southern China, Southeast Asia * ''

Urochloa trichopodioides ''Urochloa'' is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to Eurasia, Africa, Australia, Mexico, and the Pacific Islands.

'' (Mez & K.Schum.) S.M.Phillips & S.L.Chen - Zaïre, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia * ''

Urochloa trichopus ''Urochloa trichopus'', bushveld signal grass is a species of grass that is native to tropical and southern parts of Africa, Arabian Peninsula and western Madagascar. Description It is clump-forming grass that can grow up to meters tall, with a ...

'' (Hochst.) Stapf - drier parts of Africa, Arabian Pen * ''

Urochloa venosa ''Urochloa'' is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to Eurasia, Africa, Australia, Mexico, and the Pacific Islands.

'' (Swallen) Morrone & Zuloaga - western Mexico (

) ; Formerly included Numerous species once considered members of ''Urochloa'' but are now regarded as better suited to other genera, such as ''

Alloteropsis ''Alloteropsis'' (from the Greek ''allotrios'' ("strange") and ''opsis'' ("appearance")) is a genus of Old World plants in the grass family.Brachiaria'', ''

Ixophorus ''Ixophorus'' is a genus of Latin American plants in the grass family. The only recognized species is ''Ixophorus unisetus''.Hiser, K. M''Ixophorus'' Schltdl. Grass Manual. Flora of North America.Kellogg, E. A., et al. (2004)Taxonomy, phylogeny, ...

'', ''

Oplismenus ''Oplismenus'' is a small genus of annual or perennial grasses, commonly known as basketgrass, found throughout the tropics, subtropics, and in some cases, temperate regions of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The systematics of the ge ...

'', '' Panicum'', and '' Rupichloa''.

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