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The genus Brachiaria is in the family Poaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Brachiaria

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Brachiaria adspersa (Trin.) Parodi	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria advena Vickery	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria albicoma (Swallen & García-Barr.) Zuloaga & Soderstr.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria ambigens Chiov.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria antsirabensis A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria argentea (R.Br.) Hughes	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria arida (Mez) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria arizonica (Scribn. & Merr.) S.T.Blake	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria arrecta (T.Durand & Schinz) Stent	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria atrisola (R.D.Webster) B.K.Simon	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria bemarivensis A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria benoistii A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria bovonei (Chiov.) Robyns	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria breviglumis Clayton	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria brevispicata (Rendle) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria brizantha (A.Rich.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria burmanica Bor	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria capuronii A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria chusqueoides (Hack.) Clayton	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria ciliatissima (Buckley) Chase	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria clavipila (Chiov.) Robyns	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria comata (A.Rich.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria coronifera Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria decaryana A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria decumbens Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria deflexa (Schumach.) C.E.Hubb. ex Robyns	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria dictyoneura (Fig. & De Not.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria dimorpha A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria distachya (L.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria distachyoides Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria dura Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria echinulata (Mez) Parodi	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria eminii (Mez) Robyns	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria epacridifolia (Stapf) A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria eruciformis (Sm.) Griseb.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria falcifera (Trin. ex Nees) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria fasciculata (Sw.) Parodi	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria foliosa (R.Br.) Hughes	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria fragrans A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria fruticulosa A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria fusiformis Reeder	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria gilesii (Benth.) Chase	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria glomerata (Hack.) A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria grossa Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria holosericea (R.Br.) Hughes	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria humbertiana A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria humidicola (Rendle) Schweick.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria jaliscana Santana Mich.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria jubata (Fig. & De Not.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria kurzii (Hook.f.) A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria lachnantha (Hochst.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria lactea (Mez) A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria laeta (Mez) A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria lata (Schumach.) C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria lateritica A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria leandriana Bosser	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria leersioides (Hochst.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria leucacrantha (K.Schum.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria lindiensis (Pilg.) Clayton	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria longiflora Clayton	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria lorentziana (Mez) Parodi	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria malacodes (Mez & K.Schum.) H.Scholz	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria marlothii (Hack.) Stent	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria megastachya (Nees ex Trin.) Zuloaga & Soderstr.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria mesocoma (Nees) A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria meziana Hitchc.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria mollis (Sw.) Parodi	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria munae Basappa	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria mutica (Forssk.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria nana Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria nigropedata (Ficalho & Hiern) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria nilagirica Bor	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria notochthona (Domin) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria oblita (Swallen) Tovar	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria occidentalis C.A.Gardner & C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria oligobrachiata (Pilg.) Henrard	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria ophryodes Chase	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria orthostachys (Mez) Clayton	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria ovalis Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria paucispicata (Morong) Clayton	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria perrieri A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria piligera (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Hughes	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria plantaginea (Link) Hitchc.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria platynota (K.Schum.) Robyns	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria platyphylla (Munro ex C.Wright) Nash	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria polyphylla (R.Br.) Hughes	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria praetervisa (Domin) C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria psammophila (Welw. ex Rendle) Launert	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria pseudodichotoma Bosser	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria pubescens (Chiov.) S.M.Phillips	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria pubigera (Roem. & Schult.) S.T.Blake	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria pungipes Clayton	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria ramosa (L.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria remota (Retz.) Haines	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria reptans (L.) C.A.Gardner & C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria reticulata Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria rugulosa Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria ruziziensis Germ. & C.M.Evrard	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria scalaris Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria schoenfelderi C.E.Hubb. & Schweick.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria semiundulata (Hochst.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria semiverticillata (Rottler) Alston	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria serpens (Kunth) C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria serrata (Thunb.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria serrifolia (Hochst.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria stefaninii Chiov.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria stigmatisata (Mez) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria subquadripara (Trin.) Hitchc.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria subrostrata A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria subulifolia (Mez) Clayton	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria tanimbarensis Ohwi	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria texana (Buckley) S.T.Blake	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria tsiafajavonensis A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria turbinata Van der Veken	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria umbellata (Trin.) Clayton	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria umbratilis Napper	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria urochlooides S.L. Chen & Y.X. Jin	Accepted		TRO
Brachiaria urocoides S.L.Chen & Y.X.Jin	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria villosa (Lam.) A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria whiteana (Domin) C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria windersii C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria wittei Robyns	Accepted		WCSP
Brachiaria xantholeuca (Schinz) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 212 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Brachiaria. Of these 123 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 48 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Brachiaria. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 212 species names for the genus Brachiaria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	123	58.0%
◕	Synonym	82	38.7%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.5%
◕	Unassessed	6	2.8%

All names

The status of the 260 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Brachiaria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	126	48.5%
◕	Synonym	127	48.8%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.4%
◕	Unassessed	6	2.3%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as invalid
• 2 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 212 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Brachiaria, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	121	75	0	0	196	92.5%
	Medium confidence	1	6	0	0	7	3.3%
	Low confidence	1	1	1	6	9	4.2%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Brachiaria, are as follows: