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Brachiaria

The genus Brachiaria is in the family Poaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Brachiaria

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name Status Confi­dence level Source Date supplied Infra. rec.
Brachiaria adspersa (Trin.) Parodi Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria advena Vickery Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria albicoma (Swallen & García-Barr.) Zuloaga & Soderstr. Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria ambigens Chiov. Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria antsirabensis A.Camus Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria argentea (R.Br.) Hughes Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria arida (Mez) Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria arizonica (Scribn. & Merr.) S.T.Blake Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria arrecta (T.Durand & Schinz) Stent Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria atrisola (R.D.Webster) B.K.Simon Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria bemarivensis A.Camus Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria benoistii A.Camus Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria bovonei (Chiov.) Robyns Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria breviglumis Clayton Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria brevispicata (Rendle) Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria brizantha (A.Rich.) Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria burmanica Bor Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria capuronii A.Camus Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria chusqueoides (Hack.) Clayton Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria ciliaris Vanderyst Unresolved L WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria ciliatissima (Buckley) Chase Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria clavipila (Chiov.) Robyns Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria comata (A.Rich.) Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria coronifera Pilg. Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria decaryana A.Camus Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria decumbens Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria deflexa (Schumach.) C.E.Hubb. ex Robyns Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria dictyoneura (Fig. & De Not.) Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria dimorpha A.Camus Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria distachya (L.) Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23 1
Brachiaria distachyoides Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria dura Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria echinulata (Mez) Parodi Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria eminii (Mez) Robyns Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria epacridifolia (Stapf) A.Camus Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria eruciformis (Sm.) Griseb. Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria falcifera (Trin. ex Nees) Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria fasciculata (Sw.) Parodi Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria foliosa (R.Br.) Hughes Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria fragrans A.Camus Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria fruticulosa A.Camus Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria fusiformis Reeder Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria gilesii (Benth.) Chase Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria glomerata (Hack.) A.Camus Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria grossa Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria holosericea (R.Br.) Hughes Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23 1
Brachiaria humbertiana A.Camus Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria humidicola (Rendle) Schweick. Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria jaliscana Santana Mich. Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria jubata (Fig. & De Not.) Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria kurzii (Hook.f.) A.Camus Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria lachnantha (Hochst.) Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria lactea (Mez) A.Camus Accepted L WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria laeta (Mez) A.Camus Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria lata (Schumach.) C.E.Hubb. Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23 1
Brachiaria lateritica A.Camus Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria leandriana Bosser Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria leersioides (Hochst.) Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria leucacrantha (K.Schum.) Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria lindiensis (Pilg.) Clayton Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria longiflora Clayton Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria lorentziana (Mez) Parodi Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria malacodes (Mez & K.Schum.) H.Scholz Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria marlothii (Hack.) Stent Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria megastachya (Nees ex Trin.) Zuloaga & Soderstr. Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria mesocoma (Nees) A.Camus Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria meziana Hitchc. Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria mollis (Sw.) Parodi Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria multiculma (Andersson) Laegaard & Renvoize Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria munae Basappa Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria mutica (Forssk.) Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria nana Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria nigropedata (Ficalho & Hiern) Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria nilagirica Bor Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria notochthona (Domin) Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria oblita (Swallen) Tovar Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria occidentalis C.A.Gardner & C.E.Hubb. Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria oligobrachiata (Pilg.) Henrard Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria ophryodes Chase Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria orthostachys (Mez) Clayton Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria ovalis Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria paucispicata (Morong) Clayton Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria perrieri A.Camus Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria piligera (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Hughes Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria plantaginea (Link) Hitchc. Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria platynota (K.Schum.) Robyns Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria platyphylla (Munro ex C.Wright) Nash Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria polyphylla (R.Br.) Hughes Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria praetervisa (Domin) C.E.Hubb. Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria psammophila (Welw. ex Rendle) Launert Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria pseudodichotoma Bosser Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria pubescens (Chiov.) S.M.Phillips Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria pubigera (Roem. & Schult.) S.T.Blake Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria pungipes Clayton Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria ramosa (L.) Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria remota (Retz.) Haines Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria reptans (L.) C.A.Gardner & C.E.Hubb. Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria reticulata Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria rugulosa Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria ruziziensis Germ. & C.M.Evrard Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria scalaris Pilg. Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria schoenfelderi C.E.Hubb. & Schweick. Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria semiundulata (Hochst.) Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria semiverticillata (Rottler) Alston Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria serpens (Kunth) C.E.Hubb. Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria serrata (Thunb.) Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria serrifolia (Hochst.) Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria stefaninii Chiov. Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria stigmatisata (Mez) Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria subquadripara (Trin.) Hitchc. Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria subrostrata A.Camus Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria subulifolia (Mez) Clayton Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria tanimbarensis Ohwi Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria texana (Buckley) S.T.Blake Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria tsiafajavonensis A.Camus Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria turbinata Van der Veken Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria umbellata (Trin.) Clayton Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria umbratilis Napper Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria urochlooides S.L. Chen & Y.X. Jin Accepted M TRO 2012-04-18
Brachiaria urocoides S.L.Chen & Y.X.Jin Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria uzondoiensis Sánchez-Ken Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria villosa (Lam.) A.Camus Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria whiteana (Domin) C.E.Hubb. Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria windersii C.E.Hubb. Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria wittei Robyns Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Brachiaria xantholeuca (Schinz) Stapf Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 502 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Brachiaria. Of these 125 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 112 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Brachiaria. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 502 species names for the genus Brachiaria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of binomial name statuses
Status Total
◕ Accepted 125 24.9%
◕ Synonym 373 74.3%
◕ Unplaced 0 0%
◕ Unassessed 4 0.8%

All names

The status of the 614 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Brachiaria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of all name statuses
Status Total
◕ Accepted 128 20.8%
◕ Synonym 482 78.5%
◕ Unplaced 0 0%
◕ Unassessed 4 0.7%

Of the species names,

The confidence with which the status of the 502 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Brachiaria, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 123 360 0 0 483 96.2%
Medium confidence 1 13 0 0 14 2.8%
Low confidence 1 0 0 4 5 1.0%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Brachiaria is as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 1 13 0 0 0 14 2.8%
WCSP 124 360 0 4 0 488 97.2%