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|accepted_name=Urochloa mutica
|accepted_authority=(Forssk.) T.Q. Nguyen
|publications=
|common_names=Paragrass
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Panicum purpurascens
|authority=unknown
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Brachiaria mutica
|authority=unknown
}}
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Urochloa;Urochloa mutica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Paniceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Urochloa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Urochloa mutica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 494
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; stoloniferous, straggling. <b>Culms</b> to 5 m long, long-decumbent and rooting at the lower nodes, vertical portion 90-200(300) cm; nodes villous. <b>Lower</b> sheaths with papillose-based hairs, these more dense distally, margins ciliate; collars pubescent; ligules 1-1.5 mm; blades 7.5-35 cm long, 4-20 mm wide, glabrous or sparsely pilose on both surfaces, margins scabrous. <b>Panicles</b> 10-25 cm long, 5-10 cm wide, pyramidal, with 10-30 spikelike branches in more than 2 ranks; primary branches 2.5-8 cm long, 0.4-0.9 mm wide, ascending to divergent, axils pubescent, axes flat, glabrous or with a few papillose-based hairs, secondary branches present or absent; pedicels shorter than the spikelets, scabrous, sometimes with hairs. <b>Spikelets</b> 2.6-3.5 mm long, 1-1.4 mm wide, mostly in pairs, in 2-4 rows, appressed to the branches, purplish to green. <b>Glumes</b> scarcely separate, rachilla internodes short not pronounced; lower glumes 0.6-1.1 mm, 1/5 – 1/3 as long as the spikelets, glabrous, 0-1(3)-veined; upper glumes 2.6-3.5 mm, glabrous, 5-(7)-veined, without cross venation; lower florets staminate; lower lemmas 2.6-3.3 mm, glabrous, 5-veined, without cross venation; upper lemmas 2.3-2.8 mm long, 1-1.3 mm wide, apices rounded, mucronate; anthers 1-1.5 mm. <b>Caryopses</b> 1.8-2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 18, 36.</span><!--

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|distribution=Puerto Rico;Md.;Tex.;Virgin Islands;Ala.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);S.C.;Fla.;Oreg.
|discussion=<p>An African species, Urochloa mutica is grown as a forage crop throughout the tropics, but it tends to become weedy. It grows on moist, disturbed soils and is established in the southeastern United States.</p>
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name=Urochloa mutica
|author=
|authority=(Forssk.) T.Q. Nguyen
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Panicum purpurascens;Brachiaria mutica
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik and Cindy Roché
|distribution=Puerto Rico;Md.;Tex.;Virgin Islands;Ala.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);S.C.;Fla.;Oreg.
|reference=None
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|publication year=
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Urochloa
|species=Urochloa mutica
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