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|accepted_name=Urochloa ramosa
|accepted_authority=(L.) T.Q. Nguyen
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|common_names=Browntop millet
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Panicum ramosum
|authority=unknown
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|name=Brachiaria ramosa
|authority=unknown
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Urochloa;Urochloa ramosa
|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 ramosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 497
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual; tufted. <b>Culms</b> 10-65 cm, decumbent, rooting or not at the lower nodes; nodes pubescent. <b>Sheaths</b> usually puberulous, sometimes glabrous or sparsely pilose, margins ciliate; ligules 0.8-1.7 mm; blades 2-25 cm long, 4-14 mm wide, glabrous, margins scabrous. <b>Panicles</b> 3-13 cm, simple, with 3-15 spikelike primary branches; primary branches 1-8 cm, divergent, axils glabrous, axes 0.4-0.6 mm wide, triquetrous, glabrous, scabrous, or pubescent, with or without some papillose-based hairs; secondary branches, if present, confined to the lower branches; pedicels shorter than the spikelets, scabrous or pubescent. <b>Spikelets</b> 2.5-3.4 mm long, 1.3-2 mm wide, ellipsoid, apices broadly acute to acute, paired, appressed to the branches. <b>Glumes</b> scarcely separated, rachilla internode between the glumes not pronounced; lower glumes 1-1.5 mm, 1/3 – 1/2 as long as the spikelets, glabrous, 3-5-veined; upper glumes 2.5-3.4 mm, usually puberulent, sometimes glabrous, margins sometimes somewhat pubescent, 7-9-veined, without evident cross venation; lower florets sterile, lower lemmas 2.4-3.3 mm, usually puberulent or occasionally glabrous, margins not ciliate, without cross venation, 5-veined; upper lemmas 2.3-3.3 mm, acute, mucronate; anthers 0.7-1.2 mm. <b>Caryopses</b> 1.2-2.3 mm; hila punctiform. <b>2n</b> = 36 (usually); also 14, 28, 32, 42, 46, 72.</span><!--

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|distribution=Md.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;N.C.;Ala.;Tenn.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ga.;Ky.;Fla.
|discussion=<p>A weedy species of tropical Africa and Asia, <i>Urochloa ramosa</i> has spread throughout the tropics and subtropics, including the southeastern United States. It is considered a weed in the Flora area, but it is is cultivated in India as a grain and forage crop; the grain is sometimes used for birdseed.</p>
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name=Urochloa ramosa
|author=
|authority=(L.) T.Q. Nguyen
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|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Panicum ramosum;Brachiaria ramosa
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Md.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;N.C.;Ala.;Tenn.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ga.;Ky.;Fla.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Urochloa
|species=Urochloa ramosa
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