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Brachiaria villosa (Lam.) A.Camus

Species

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Characteristics

Annual. Culms loosely tufted, slender, usually decumbent and branching below, 10–40(–50) cm tall. Leaf sheaths glabrous or pubescent, especially along margins and mouth; leaf blades broadly lanceolate, 1–4 × 0.3–1 cm, both surfaces glabrous to densely pubescent, base rounded or subcordate, margins cartilaginous, scabrous, apex acute; ligule ciliate. Inflorescence axis 3–7 cm; racemes 4–8, (1–)3–6 cm, secund, ascending; rachis triquetrous, ± villous; spikelets mostly single. Spikelets elliptic, 2–2.7 mm, without a stipe, glabrous or pubescent, sometimes transversely bearded below apex, acute or subacute; lower glume 1/3–1/2 spikelet length, clasping, 3-veined, acute; upper glume separated from lower by a slight internode, 5-veined; upper lemma striate and transversely rugulose, apex acute to minutely mucronate. Fl. and fr. Jul–Oct. 2n = 36.
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Loosely tufted or creeping annual; culms 10–50 cm. high.. Leaf-blades narrowly lanceolate, 1–7 cm. long, 2–6 mm. wide, the margins cartilaginous.. Inflorescence of 5–10 racemes on an axis 3–7 cm. long; racemes 1–4 cm. long, secund, bearing single or paired spikelets (sometimes short side branchlets at base of longer racemes) on a ± pubescent triquetrous rhachis.. Spikelets elliptic, 2–2.7 mm. long, glabrous or pubescent, sometimes with a short transverse fringe of hairs near the tip, acute to subacute, without a stipe; lower glume 1/3–1/2 the length of the spikelet, clasping; upper glume separated from the lower by a slight internode; upper lemma granulose to rugulose, acute to mucronulate.
An annual grass. It forms loose tufts. It can be creeping and grows 45 cm high. It has a small root system. The spikelet is 2.5 mm long.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination anemogamy
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Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in waste land and disturbed soils in the Sahel in West Africa. It can grow in arid places. It grows in lowland savannah. It can grow on the edges of mangroves and coastal sands.
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Waste places and disturbed soils. Mountain or hill slopes, fields, roadsides, other weedy or grassy places.
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Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible seeds
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
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Distribution

Brachiaria villosa world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:393035-1
WFO ID wfo-0000854283
COL ID MSKV
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Synonyms

Panicum cartilagineum Brachiaria villosa f. glabriglumis Panicum vestitum Urochloa coccosperma Brachiaria villosa Urochloa villosa var. glaberrima Brachiaria villosa var. villosa
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