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Urochloa ramosa is a warm-season, monocotyledonous annual grass belonging to Poaceae. It is a short-lived, tufted, loosely clumped herb with decumbent to erect culms. It is considered native to South-East Asia and tropical Africa and now naturalised in tropical Asia, Arabia, China, Australia and South-Eastern USA. In India, it is cultivated as minor millet mostly in dry, rain-fed tracts of Karnataka, parts of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Odisha.