Urochloa reptans
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https://doi.org/10.3767/blumea.2023.68.02.01 |
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Urochloa reptans |
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Urochloa reptans View in CoL (L.) Stapf
Urochloa reptans View in CoL (L.) Stapf (1920) 601. — Panicum reptans View in CoL L. (1759) 870. — Panicum grossarium View in CoL L. (1759) 871, nom. illeg., superfl. — Brachiaria reptans View in CoL (L.) C.A.Gardner & C.E.Hubb. (1938) t. 3363. — Echinochloa reptans View in CoL (L.) Roberty (1954) 398. — Lectotype (designated by Hitchcock 1908: 119): Browne s.n. (lecto LINN [LINN 80.52, upper part]), Jamaica.
Distribution — A pantropical weed; in Africa, notably abun- dant in North-East and East Africa, from Egypt south to Mozambique and Madagascar, also in Togo, Benin and Cameroun.
Nomenclatural notes — Hitchcock argued that Linnaeus had erroneously described two species, P. reptans and P. grossarium , based on the same material.
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