Supplemental Data for: Schultze-Kraft, R., Peters, M., Wenzl, P. (2020). A historical appraisal of the tropical forages collection conserved at CIAT. Genetic Resources 1 (2), 51–68. doi: 10.46265/genresj.KZEW5023. Supplemental Table 1 Recent nomenclatural changes of tropical forage species mentioned in this document under their previous names, based on the taxonomy accepted by the USDA Genetic Resources Information Network (GRIN). [For further name changes of forage species during the past 50 years the reader is referred to Cook and Schultze-Kraft (2015) and Cook et al. (2020)]. Previous name and authority New name and authority Brachiaria brizantha (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Stapf Urochloa brizantha (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) R.D. Webster Brachiaria decumbens Stapf Urochloa decumbens (Stapf) R.D. Webster Brachiaria humidicola (Rendle) Schweick. Urochloa humidicola (Rendle) Morrone & Zuloaga Brachiaria dictyoneura (Fig. & De Not.) Veldkamp1 Urochloa humidicola (Rendle) Morrone & Zuloaga2 Brachiaria ruziziensis R. Germ. & C.M. Evrard Urochloa ruziziensis (R. Germ. & C.M. Evrard) Crins Brachiaria spp. hybrids Urochloa spp. hybrids Centrosema pubescens auct. pl.2 Centrosema molle Mart. ex Benth.4 Desmodium heterocarpon subsp. ovalifolium (Prain) H. Ohashi [syn. D. ovalifolium (Prain) Wall. ex Merr.] Grona heterocarpa subsp. ovalifolia (Prain) H. Ohashi & K. Ohashi Desmodium strigillosum Schindl. Grona strigillosa (Schindl.) H. Ohashi & K. Ohashi Panicum maximum Jacq. Megathyrsus maximus (Jacq.) B.K. Simon & S.W.L. Jacobs Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br. [syn. P. americanum (L.) Leeke; P. typhoides (Burm. f.) Stapf & C.E. Hubb.] Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone Pennisetum purpureum Schumach. Cenchrus purpureus (Schumach.) Morrone Pueraria phaseoloides (Roxb.) Benth. Neustanthus phaseoloides (Roxb.) Benth. 1The name change from Brachiaria dictyoneura to Urochloa humidicola applies only to accession CIAT 6133 (CPI 59610), released in several countries under various cultivar names (see Table 5). The accession had entered the pasture research system under the erroneous classification of B. dictyoneura and appeared subsequently under that name in a considerable number of publications. It was reclassified as B. humidicola in 1994 by Dr. Stephen A. Renvoize (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew) and its current name accepted by GRIN is Urochloa humidicola. 2This refers to the species represented by the commercial cultivar ‘centro’ (‘common centro’) widely used for forage and as soil cover in tree plantations, originally described as Centrosema molle but in the literature throughout decades erroneously referred to as C. pubescens. (There does exist, however, a species with the latter name, C. pubescens Benth., accepted by GRIN. Formerly known as C. schiedeanum R.J. Williams & R.J. Clem., it is the taxon to which the Australian cultivar ‘Belalto’ belongs.) https://doi.org/10.46265/genresj.KZEW5023 https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=7570 https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=9848 https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=405748 https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=405748 https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=405748 https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=26558 https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=27187 https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=27208 https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=464278 https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=30357 https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=479388 Supplemental Table 2 Plant collectors who participated in the collecting missions mentioned in Table 1. Year Country Collector 1972-73 Colombia Venezuela Pedro J. Argel, Bert Grof M. Delia Escobar 1974-75 Bolivia Brazil Colombia Venezuela L. Martínez, Víctor M. Patiño D. Balia, I. Camargo, L.C. Freire, B. Grof, Víctor M. Patiño, Rainer Schultze-Kraft, U.R. da Silva Guido Delgadillo, Víctor M. Patiño Adalberto J. Flores, C. Montes, Víctor M. Patiño 1976-77 Brazil Colombia Venezuela Mário S.F. Dantas, Ray Isbell, Dorival Pimentel, Robert Reid, Rainer Schultze-Kraft, F. Beni de Sousa Jack R. Harlan, Manuel Sánchez, Rainer Schultze-Kraft M. Delia Escobar, Adalberto J. Flores 1978-79 Brazil Colombia Panama Thailand Venezuela Lidio Coradin, Rainer Schultze-Kraft, João C. Silva, Glocimar P. da Silva Manuel Sánchez, Rainer Schultze-Kraft Belisario Castillo, Carlos Ortega, Rainer Schultze-Kraft Chanchai Manidool, Siriphong Pattanavibul, Rainer Schultze-Kraft M. Delia Escobar, Adalberto J. Flores, Espedito García, Rainer Schultze-Kraft 1980-81 Brazil Colombia Venezuela Don F. Cameron, Lidio Coradin, Rainer Schultze-Kraft, Glocimar P. da Silva Arsenio Ciprián, Gerhard Keller-Grein, Robert Reid, Manuel Sánchez, Rainer Schultze-Kraft Adalberto J. Flores, Rainer Schultze-Kraft 1982-83 Colombia Malaysia Papua New Guinea Peru Thailand Álvaro Arias, Javier Belalcázar, Luis E. Chipiaje, Rainer Schultze- Kraft Wong Choi Chee, Siriphong Pattanavibul, Rainer Schultze-Kraft, Hassan Wahab Bruce Pengelly, M. Raurela, Graeme Tupper César Reyes, Rainer Schultze-Kraft, César Valles Siriphong Pattanavibul, Rainer Schultze-Kraft 1984 Brazil China Colombia Ethiopia Kenya Indonesia Thailand Venezuela Lidio Coradin, Liana Jank, M. Isabel Penteado, Rainer Schultze- Kraft, Glocimar P. da Silva, F. Beni de Sousa Huang Xunwen, Jiang Houming, Rainer Schultze-Kraft Libardo Arévalo, Javier Belalcázar, Luis E. Chipiaje, Charles Mullenax, Armando Peralta, E. Sánchez, Tony Russell-Smith, Rainer Schultze-Kraft Gerhard Keller-Grein, A. Tsehay Gerhard Keller-Grein, S. Mengistu Rainer Schultze-Kraft Siriphong Pattanavibul, Rainer Schultze-Kraft Adalberto J. Flores, Gerhard Keller-Grein Year Country Collector 1985 Burundi Colombia Indonesia Panama Rwanda Tanzania Venezuela Zimbabwe Gerhard Keller-Grein Álvaro Arias, Javier Belalcázar, He Chaozu, Rainer Schultze-Kraft Abdul Gani, Rainer Schultze-Kraft Pedro J. Argel, Olmedo Duque, Rainer Schultze-Kraft Gerhard Keller-Grein Gerhard Keller-Grein, M. Lugenja, S. Mengistu Adalberto J. Flores, Socors González, Rainer Schultze-Kraft Gerhard Keller-Grein, J. Matanda 1986 Colombia Costa Rica Indonesia Mexico Venezuela Javier Belalcázar, G. Bravo, Arsenio Ciprián, Ernesto Dávila, Les A. Edye, O. Garzón, L.A. Giraldo E. Salazar, Rainer Schultze-Kraft, A. Vargas Abdul Gani, Rainer Schultze-Kraft, M.E. Siregar Juan José Aguirre, S. Amaya, Javier Enríquez, J. Maldonado, J.M. Martínez, Armando Peralta, Rainer Schultze-Kraft Adalberto J. Flores, F. Gómez, Socors González, J.C. Ortega, Rainer Schultze-Kraft, F. Serrano, R. Zerpa 1987-88 Brazil China Colombia Thailand Lidio Coradin, Nuno S. Costa, Rainer Schultze-Kraft, Glocimar P. da Silva He Chaozu, Jiang Houming, Liu Guodao, Rainer Schultze-Kraft, Yang Zhen Alvaro Arias, Javier Belalcázar, Arsenio Ciprián, Ernesto Dávila, Armando Ferrufino, L.A. Heredia, Rodolfo Heyn, M. Mesa Siriphong Pattanavibul, Rainer Schultze-Kraft 1989-90 Cameroon Colombia Honduras B. Mbélé, Etienne T. Pamo, Rainer Schultze-Kraft Javier Belalcázar, Ernesto Dávila, Carlos Hernández, Gustavo Maldonado J.M. Flores, Américo Rush, Rainer Schultze-Kraft, Óscar Suazo, Linus Wege 1991-93 Colombia Thailand Vietnam J.W. Alvarado, Javier Belalcázar, Diego Chamorro, Arsenio Ciprián, I. Leal, Liu Guodao, Brigitte Maass, G.S. Naranjo Siriphong Pattanavibul, Rainer Schultze-Kraft, Pensri Sornprasitti Ha Dinh Tuan, Nguyen Phung Ha, Rainer Schultze-Kraft References: Cook, B.G., Schultze-Kraft, R. (2015). Botanical name changes – nuisance or a quest for precision? Tropical Grasslands-Forrajes Tropicales 3, 34–40. doi: 10.17138/TGFT(3)34-40. Cook, B.G., Pengelly, B.C., Schultze-Kraft, R., Taylor, M., Burkart, S., Cardoso Arango, J.A., González Guzmán, J.J., Cox, K., Jones, C., Peters, M. (2020). Tropical Forages: An interactive selection tool. 2nd and revised Edn. (Cali, Colombia: CIAT, and Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI). www.tropicalforages.info. https://doi.org/10.17138/TGFT(3)34-40 https://www.tropicalforages.info/