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|accepted_name=Urochloa texana
|accepted_authority=(Buckley) R.D. Webster
|publications=
|common_names=Texas signalgrass;Texas millet
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Panicum texanum
|authority=
|rank=species
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|name=Brachiaria texana
|authority=
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Urochloa;Urochloa texana
|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 texana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 495
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual. <b>Culms</b> (20)40-200 cm, erect or decumbent; nodes puberulent; internodes pubescent, at least below the nodes. <b>Sheaths</b> usually with papillose-based hairs, margins shortly ciliate; collars pubescent; ligules 1-1.8 mm; blades 7-24 cm long, 5-20 mm wide, softly pubescent on both surfaces, margins ciliate basally, scabrous distally. <b>Panicles</b> 8-24 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, with spikelike primary branches in more than 2 ranks; primary branches 1-8 cm long, 0.3-0.4 mm wide, appressed to ascending, axes triquetrous, pubescent, with some papillose-based hairs; secondary branches present on the lower branches, short, appressed; pedicels shorter than the spikelets, usually with papillose-based hairs distally. <b>Spikelets</b> 4.8-6 mm long, 1.8-2 mm wide, mostly paired, in 2-4 rows, appressed to the branches. <b>Glumes</b> scarcely separate, rachilla internodes short, not pronounced; lower glumes 2.4-3.2 mm, to 1/2 as long as the spikelets, 5-7-veined, glabrous or sparsely pubescent distally; upper glumes 4-5.5 mm, glabrous or sparsely pilose, 7-9-veined; lower florets staminate (sterile); lower lemmas 4.7-6 mm, glabrous or sparsely pilose, 5-veined; lower paleas present; upper lemmas 3.6-4.1 mm long, 1.7-1.9 mm wide, apices acute, beaked; anthers (1.6) 2.2-2.7 mm. <b>Caryopses</b> 2-3 mm; hilas linear, about 1/2 as long as the caryopses. <b>2n</b> = 54.</span><!--

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|distribution=Va.;Mass.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Calif.;N.C.;Ala.;Kans.;Ark.;N.Mex.;Ga.;S.C.;Okla.;Ky.;Ariz.;Fla.;Mo.;Md.
|discussion=<p><i>Urochloa texana</i> grows in sandy, moist soils from the southern United States to northern Mexico. Populations in the United States outside of Texas may represent relatively recent introductions.</p>
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name=Urochloa texana
|authority=(Buckley) R.D. Webster
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Panicum texanum;Brachiaria texana
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Cindy Roché
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Va.;Mass.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Calif.;N.C.;Ala.;Kans.;Ark.;N.Mex.;Ga.;S.C.;Okla.;Ky.;Ariz.;Fla.;Mo.;Md.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Urochloa
|species=Urochloa texana
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