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Urochloa mutica

Botanic Family

Poaceae

Author

(Forsskål) T.Q. Nguyen

Common Names

• Pará Grass (Peru)
• Water Grass

Geographical Habitats

• Algeria
• Angola
• Benin
• Burkina
• Cameroon
• Chad
• Congo
• Egypt
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Morocco
• Nigeria
• Niger
• Palestine
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Sinai
• Sudan
• Togo
• Tunisia
• Yemen
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Creeping or scrambling culms to 5m. Hairy sheath to 200mm long, hairy leaves to 250mm x 19mm. Hairy erect panicles or spikelike racemes to 260mm long, green or purplish spikelets paired or in threes to 3.3mm x 1.4mm, lower glume to 1.4mm long, upper glume to 3.1mm long

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• GBS
• Kew
• FOPE
• FOL