Urochloa
Urochloa is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to Eurasia, Africa, Australia, Mexico, and the Pacific Islands. Common names include signalgrass.
; Species
- Urochloa brachyura Stapf - E + S Africa
- Urochloa brizantha R.Webster - native to tropical + S Africa; introduced and widely grown in S America + Pacific
- Urochloa echinolaenoides Stapf - Zaïre, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia
- Urochloa fusca B.F. Hansen & Wunderlin browntop signalgrass - southern United States to Argentina
- Urochloa glumaris 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 Dandy - Africa, Madagascar
- Urochloa oligotricha Henrard - Africa
- Urochloa olivacea Sánchez-Ken - western Mexico
- Urochloa panicoides P.Beauv. - panic liverseed grass - Africa, southern Asia
- Urochloa pauciflora Sánchez-Ken - western Mexico
- Urochloa platyrrhachis C.E.Hubb. - Zambia, Zaïre
- Urochloa rudis Stapf - Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania
- Urochloa sclerochlaena Chiov - Ethiopia, Kenya
- Urochloa setigera Stapf - Indian subcon, southern China, Southeast Asia
- Urochloa trichopodioides S.M.Phillips & S.L.Chen - Zaïre, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia
- Urochloa trichopus Stapf - drier parts of Africa, Arabian Pen
- Urochloa venosa Morrone & Zuloaga - western Mexico
; Formerly included
Numerous species once considered members of Urochloa but now regarded as better suited to other genera: Alloteropsis Brachiaria Ixophorus Oplismenus Panicum Rupichloa
