Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Urochloa multiculma (Andersson) Morrone & Zuloaga

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Plantae

Phylum
Magnoliophyta

Class
Liliopsida (= Monocotyledoneae)

Order
Cyperales

Family
Poaceae

Genus
Urochloa

Species
multiculma

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Brachiaria multiculma (Andersson) Laegaard & Renvoize (POWO, 2022); Acc. name: Brachiaria multiculma (Andersson) Laegaard & Renvoize fide Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Missouri Botanical Garden (2010).

Origin: Endemic

Status

Least concern

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

References

  • Blake, S. Wikelski, M., Cabrera, F., Guézou, A., Silva, M., Sadeghayobi, E., Yackulik, C. & Jaramillo, P. (2011) Gardeners of Galapagos? Seed dispersal by giant tortoises. Journal of Biogeography (submission): 1-41.
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Missouri Botanical Garden (eds.) (2013) The Plant List, Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1st January).
  • 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/
  • Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
  • Tye, A. (2008) The Grasses Urochloa multiculma and U. fusca (Poaceae) in the Galápagos archipielago Department of Botany Charles Darwin Research Station, Galápagos-Ecuador. Present Adrdress: SPRED, PO Box 240, Apia, Samoa. email:alant@sprep.org
  • Valencia, R. Pitman, N., León-Yánez, S. & Jørgensen, P.M. (2000) Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endémicas del Ecuador. Herbario QCA, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. Ecuador 2000 i–iv, 1–489.
  • Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Urochloa multiculma", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=957. Accessed 1 November 2026.