Urochloa setigera Stapf

Species

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Characteristics

Perennial from a knotty base. Culms rigid, decumbent, ascending to 1 m, nodes densely bearded. Leaf sheaths puberulous and with tubercle-based hairs, one margin ciliate; leaf blades lanceolate, 8–15 × 1.8–2.5 cm, pubescent, base cordate-amplexicaul, margins scabrous, pectinate-ciliate usually at least to the middle, apex acuminate; ligule ca. 2 mm, ciliate. Inflorescence axis 6–13 cm; racemes 6–12, 2–5 cm, ascending; spikelets usually paired, setose especially on pedicels. Spikelet ovate-lanceolate, 4–5 mm, densely pubescent, acuminate-cuspidate; lower glume ovate, ca. 1/5 spikelet length, triangular, subacute; upper glume (5–)7–9-veined; lower lemma slightly shorter than upper glume, staminate or sterile, 5–7-veined, palea well developed, keels very narrowly winged upward; upper lemma broadly elliptic, coriaceous, rugulose, mucro ca. 0.1 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul–Sep.
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Trailing perennial; culms 20–40 cm. high.. Leaf-blades lanceolate, 3–12 cm. long, 5–20 mm. wide, broadly rounded at the base, mostly glabrous on the margins (ciliate in India).. Inflorescence of 2–8 racemes on a common axis 1–7 cm. long; racemes 2–5 cm. long, bearing single or paired spikelets on a subtriquetrous rhachis, the pedicels (sometimes also the rhachis) with white hairs.. Spikelets narrowly ovate, 3–4(–4.5) mm. long, sharply acute; lower glume ovate, 1/3 the length of the spikelet, subacute; upper glume without crossveins, glabrous or pubescent; upper lemma submuricate with a mucro 0.5 mm. long (merely mucronulate in India).
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.6 - 0.8
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Optimum temperature (C°) 15 - 24
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Distribution

Urochloa setigera world distribution map, present in Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Nepal, and Thailand

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:426287-1
WFO ID wfo-0000906905
COL ID 7DTSM
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Synonyms

Oplismenus prostratus Panicum setigerum Urochloa cordata Urochloa setigera Echinochloa setigera Panicum affine Brachiaria setigera var. albistyla Urochloa setigera var. albistyla Panicum prostratum var. setigerum Panicum procumbens var. setigerum Brachiaria setigera