Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Urochloa eminii (Mez) Davidse
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Urochloa eminii
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.
(Mez) Davidse
Common names
Basilisk signal grass, Congo grass, Congo signal grass, Palisade Grass, Surinam grass, congo-grass, congo-signal-grass, kennedy-ruzi, ruzi grass, signal grass, spreading liverseed grass
Names in other languages (11)Capim-braquiária, Surinamgras, braquiária, braquiária-decumbens, braquiária-ruziziensis, brizanta, capim-brachiaria-decumbens, capim-brachiaria-ruziziensis, pasto alambre, zacate Surinam, スリナムグラス
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).
Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.
Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).
Liliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).
Poales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).
Poaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.
Urochloa
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.
eminii
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
species
Reference species
Urochloa eminii
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.
accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.
Not evaluated (NE)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-12 18:06.
Photo of Urochloa eminii (Mez) Davidse
Photo: Scott W. Gavins · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Urochloa eminii (Mez) Davidse
Photo: Richard Fuller · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Urochloa eminii (Mez) Davidse
Photo: Elizabeth Meier · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Urochloa eminii (Mez) Davidse
Photo: Scott W. Gavins · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Urochloa eminii (Mez) Davidse
Photo: Scott W. Gavins · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Urochloa eminii (Mez) Davidse
Photo: Scott W. Gavins · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-12 18:06.

Interacciones documentadas

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A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 8 of 8 is a host of × is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of × is eaten by × has its flowers visited by × is an allelopath of × interacts with × has as a parasite × is a symbiont of ×

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is a host of 75 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. In the source ontology symbiosis covers mutualism, commensalism and parasitism alike, so this block holds attackers and allies side by side.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Puccinia nyasalandica is a host of 4 no location
Phragmidiella africana Phakopsoraceae is a host of 4 no location
Claviceps sulcata Clavicipitaceae is a host of 3 no location
Uromyces setariae-italicae Pucciniaceae is a host of 3 no location
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is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 40 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Acaulospora longula Acaulosporaceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 not compared
Funneliformis mosseae Glomeraceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 not compared
Racocetra coralloidea is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 not compared
Acaulospora scrobiculata Acaulosporaceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 not compared
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is eaten by 12 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Agile Wallaby Notamacropus agilis Macropodidae is eaten by 6 not compared
Mahanarva spectabilis Ischnorhinidae is eaten by 4 no location
Pale-headed Rosella Platycercus adscitus Psittaculidae is eaten by 2 not compared
Ina Grass-dart Taractrocera ina Hesperiidae is eaten by 2 no location
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Flower visit

has its flowers visited by 6 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. Visiting a flower is not pollinating it. «Pollinates» is a different term and a different block, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae has its flowers visited by 2 not compared
skjoldedderkopper Ceratina sp. Apidae has its flowers visited by 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source did not resolve a species — the name carries an open-nomenclature qualifier.
Gomphina Veneridae has its flowers visited by 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Lipotriches cassiae has its flowers visited by Refuted 1 no location
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is an allelopath of 2 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. The source names the ends of this term pathogen and host, but the ontology defines allelopathy as an influence through biochemicals that can be positive or negative: it is not a declared harm.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Fall Armyworm Moth Spodoptera frugiperda Noctuidae is an allelopath of 1 not compared
Corn Zea mays L. Poaceae is an allelopath of 1 not compared
Showing 2 of 2, by number of studies

interacts with 2 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Anagrus interacts with 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Anagrus Mymaridae interacts with 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Showing 2 of 2, by number of studies

has as a parasite 1 organism

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Anagrus Mymaridae has as a parasite 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

is a symbiont of 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. In the source ontology symbiosis covers mutualism, commensalism and parasitism alike, so this block holds attackers and allies side by side.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Fungi Including Lichens Fungi is a symbiont of 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at kingdom level.
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.