Urochloa

Urochloa is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to Eurasia, Africa, Australia, Mexico, and the Pacific Islands. Common names include signalgrass.

Species
87 species have been accepted by Plants of the World Online (in 2023),


 * Urochloa adspersa
 * Urochloa advena
 * Urochloa albicoma
 * Urochloa argentea
 * Urochloa arida
 * Urochloa arizonica
 * Urochloa arrecta
 * Urochloa atrisola
 * Urochloa bovonei
 * Urochloa brachyura (Hack.) Stapf - E + S Africa
 * Urochloa brevispicata
 * Urochloa brizantha (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) R.Webster - tropical + S Africa
 * Urochloa burmanica
 * Urochloa caboverdiana
 * Urochloa chusqueoides
 * Urochloa ciliatissima
 * Urochloa clavipila
 * Urochloa comata
 * Urochloa deflexa
 * Urochloa dictyoneura
 * Urochloa distachyoides
 * Urochloa distachyos
 * Urochloa dura
 * Urochloa echinolaenoides - Zaïre, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia
 * Urochloa eminii
 * Urochloa falcifera
 * Urochloa foliosa
 * Urochloa fusca B.F. Hansen & Wunderlin (browntop signalgrass) - southern USA to Argentina
 * Urochloa fusiformis
 * Urochloa gilesii
 * Urochloa glumaris (Trin.) Veldkamp (Thurston grass) - SE Asia, Indian subcon
 * Urochloa holosericea
 * Urochloa jaliscana
 * Urochloa jubata
 * Urochloa kurzii
 * Urochloa lachnantha
 * Urochloa lata
 * Urochloa leersioides
 * Urochloa lorentziana
 * Urochloa megastachya
 * Urochloa meziana
 * Urochloa mollis


 * Urochloa multiculma
 * Urochloa mutica
 * Urochloa nigropedata
 * Urochloa notochthona
 * Urochloa oblita
 * Urochloa occidentalis
 * Urochloa oligobrachiata
 * Urochloa oligotricha (Fig. & De Not.) Henrard - Africa
 * Urochloa olivacea Sánchez-Ken - western Mexico
 * Urochloa ophryodes
 * Urochloa orthostachys
 * Urochloa ovalis
 * Urochloa panicoides P.Beauv. (panic liverseed grass) - Africa, S. Asia
 * Urochloa pauciflora Sánchez-Ken - W. Mexico
 * Urochloa paucispicata
 * Urochloa piligera
 * Urochloa plantaginea
 * Urochloa platynota
 * Urochloa platyphylla
 * Urochloa platyrrhachis C.E.Hubb. - Zambia, Zaïre
 * Urochloa polyphylla
 * Urochloa polystachya
 * Urochloa praetervisa
 * Urochloa pubigera
 * Urochloa ramosa
 * Urochloa reptans
 * Urochloa reticulata
 * Urochloa rudis Stapf - Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania
 * Urochloa rugulosa
 * Urochloa sclerochlaena Chiov - Ethiopia, Kenya
 * Urochloa semiundulata
 * Urochloa serrata
 * Urochloa serrifolia
 * Urochloa setigera (Retz.) Stapf - Indian subcon, S. China, SE. Asia
 * Urochloa stigmatisata
 * Urochloa subulifolia
 * Urochloa tanimbarensis
 * Urochloa texana
 * Urochloa trichopodioides (Mez & K.Schum.) S.M.Phillips & S.L.Chen - Zaïre, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia
 * Urochloa trichopus (Hochst.) Stapf - Africa, Arabian Pen
 * Urochloa turbinata


 * Urochloa villosa
 * Urochloa whiteana
 * Urochloa wittei
 * Urochloa xantholeuca

Formerly included
Numerous species once considered members of Urochloa but are now regarded as better suited to other genera, such as Alloteropsis, Brachiaria, Ixophorus, Oplismenus, Panicum, and Rupichloa.