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Appendix 3 Scientific and common names of important Southwest Pacific pasture species*

Grasses 
Axonopus compressusCarpet grass
Bothriochloa spp.Creeping blue grass
Brachiaria decumbensSignal grass
Brachiaria humidicolaKoronivia grass
Brachiaria muticaPara grass
Brachiaria miliiformisCori grass
Dicanthium caricosumNadi blue grass
Dicanthium sericeumQueensland blue grass
Digitaria decumbensPangola grass
Digitaria milanjianaDigitaria
Heteropogon contortusSpear grass
Imperata cylindricaKunai or blady grass
Ischaemum aristatumBatiki
Ischaemum indicumBatiki
Pennisetum polystachyonMission
Pennisetum purpureumElephant
Paspalum conjugatumt-grass
Urochloa mosambicensis cv. NixonSabi grass
Setaria sphacelataSetaria
Sorghum spp.Sorghum
Themeda triandraKangaroo grass
  
Legumes 
Aeschynomene americana cvv. Glenn, LeeGlenn or Lee joint vetch
Albizia chinensisAlbizia
Arachis pintoi cv. AmarilloPinto peanut
Arachis repensRepens
Arachis glabrataGlabrata
Calopogonium mucunoidesCalopo
Calliandra calothyrsusCalliandra
Centrosema pubescensCentro
Desmanthus virgatusDesmanthus
Desmodium heterophyllumHetero
Desmodium intortum cv. GreenleafGreenleaf
Gliricidia sepiumGliricidia
Lablab purpureusDolichos lablab
Leucaena leucocephalaLeucaena
L. diversifolia, L. pallidaLeucaena
Pueraria phaseoloidesPuero
Stylosanthes hamata cvv. Verano, AmigaAmiga or Verano stylo
S. scabra cv. SecaSeca stylo
S. scabra cv. SiranSiran stylo
Vigna hoseiiHoseii
Vigna unguiculataCowpea

* Some are not referred to in text

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