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Taxon:  Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench subsp. drummondii (Steud.) de Wet ex Davidse



Summary
Genus:
Sorghum
Section:
Sorghum
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Nomen number:
410498
Place of publication:
Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45:1258. 1993 (J. M. J. de Wet, Amer. J. Bot. 65:481. 1978, nom. inval.)
Comment:
  • [= S. bicolor subsp. bicolor × S. bicolor subsp. verticilliflorum]
  • de Wet failed to provide a full reference to the basionym, citing only S. drummondii (Steud.) Millsp. & Chase
Verified:
03/05/2008 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
1 (1  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench (0 active accession[s])
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench subsp. bicolor (0 active accession[s])
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench subsp. verticilliflorum (Steud.) de Wet ex Wiersema & J. Dahlb. (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Andropogon drummondii Steud.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Andropogon sorghum (L.) Brot. var. drummondii (Steud.) Hack.
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench var. drummondii (Steud.) Mohlenbr.
Sorghum drummondii (Steud.) Nees ex Millsp. & Chase
Sorghum vulgare Pers. var. drummondii (Steud.) Hitchc.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Andropogon sorghum (L.) Brot. subsp. hewisonii Piper
Andropogon sorghum (L.) Brot. subsp. sudanensis Piper
Holcus sorghum L. var. hewisonii (Piper) Hitchc.
Holcus sorghum L. var. sudanensis (Piper) Hitchc.
Sorghum hewisonii (Piper) Longley
Sorghum niloticum (Stapf ex Piper) Snowden
Sorghum sudanense (Piper) Stapf
Sorghum vulgare Pers. var. sudanense (Piper) Hitchc.
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Reference(s)
  1. de Wet, J. M. J. 1978. Systematics and evolution of Sorghum sect. Sorghum (Gramineae). Amer. J. Bot. 65:481. http://www.amjbot.org
  2. Dillon, S. L. et al. 2007. Sorghum resolved as a distinct genus based on combined ITS1, ndhF and Adh1 analyses. Pl. Syst. Evol. 268:29-43. http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/606
  3. FNA Editorial Committee. Flora of North America. 1993- http://floranorthamerica.org/
  4. Godwin, I. 2009. Plant germplasm collections as sources of useful genes. Plant molecular breeding. 2009 134-151. Note: = Sorghum sudanensis
  5. Harlan, J. R. & J. M. J. de Wet. 1976. A simplified classification of cultivated Sorghum. Crop Sci. (Madison) 12:176.
  6. International Seed Testing Association. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2. 1982
  7. Kellerman, T. S. et al. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. 1988 Note: poisonous
  8. Krizek, D. 2008. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
  9. Mabberley, D. J. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. 1997
  10. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  11. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 Note: = S. ×drummondii (Steud.) Millsp. & Chase
  12. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952- Note: = S. ×drummondii (Steud.) Millsp. & Chase
  13. Wiersema, J. H. & J. Dahlberg. 2007. The nomenclature of Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench (Gramineae). Taxon 56:944. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax
  14. Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:600. Note: = S. ×drummondii (Steud.) Millsp. & Chase
  15. Federal Seed Act and Regulations, Agricultural and Vegetable Kind Lists, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch. 1998 http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?template=TemplateI&navID=Publications&rightNav1=Publications&topNav=&leftNav=FairTradingRegulations&page=SeedTestingPublications&resultType=&acct=lsgeninfo
Common names
English
chicken-corn –
shattercane –
sordan –
sorghum-sudangrass –
Sudan grass –
French
sorgho du Soudan –
sorgho menu –
German
Sudangras –
Italian
sorgo gentile –
Spanish
pasto Sudán –
Distribution
Cultivated (one form (Sudangrass) widely cult. for forage)
Naturalized (may occur as weed wherever sorghum is cult.)
Economic Uses
Animal food
Environmental
soil improver (fide Cover Crop Database, as S. ×drummondii) –
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Kingsbury, as S. sudanense; Kellerman et al.) –
Weed
potential seed contaminant (fide Amer J Bot 65:481. 1978) –


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