Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Urochloa eminii
Braquiaria, brachiaria, pasto peludo, pasto alambre, pasto de las orillas, Signalgrass, spreading liverseed grass
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Liliopsida (= Monocotyledoneae)
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Urochloa
Species
eminii
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Brachiaria decumbens Stapf (POWO, 2022); Syn.: Urochloa decumbens (Stapf) R.D.Webster fide Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Missouri Botanical Garden (2010)
Origin: Introduced - established
Year of first record: 1996
Year of introduction: 1996
Mode of introduction: Intentional
Introduced status: Naturalized
Invasive status: No data
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2022) Plants of the world online POWO (2022): Plants of the world online. Published on the Internet; Https://powo.science.kew.org/
- Sosef, M. (2016) Taxonomic novelties in Central African grasses (Poaceae), Paniceae 1 Sosef, M. (2016). Taxonomic novelties in Central African grasses (Poaceae), Paniceae 1. Plant Ecology and Evolution, 149(3), 356-365
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"Galapagos Species Database, Urochloa eminii", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20406. Accessed 25 June 2025.