Brachiaria mutica

Botanical Description

Brachiaria mutica is an evergreen, perennial grass spreading freely from a vigorous, stoloniferous rootstock to form a colony of culms 100 - 200cm tall. The stout culms have a trailing habit, they often root at the lower nodes. A vigorous plant, individual stolons can be up to 5 metres long[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. , 1040 Title The Wild Relatives of Rice, A Genetic Resources Handbook Publication Author Vaughan D.A. Website http://irri.org/ Publisher International Rice Research Institute; Philippines Year 1994 ISBN 971-22-0057-4 Description An excellent guide to the wild species of the genus Oryza. It gives good descriptions of the species, habitats etc and often gives details of uses. It can be downloaded from the Internet ]. This is a forage grass (Para Grass) widely cultivated in tropical regions of the world and often found as a naturalized escape. It is often used as a ground cover and soil stabilizer. This species has been introduced throughout much of the tropics and may still be spreading, it is not subject to any known threat. The plant is classified as 'Least Concern' in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species(2013)[ 338 Title IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Publication Author Website http://www.iucnredlist.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat. ].