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Taxon:  Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench subsp. verticilliflorum (Steud.) de Wet ex Wiersema & J. Dahlb.



Summary
Genus:
Sorghum
Section:
Sorghum
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Nomen number:
454737
Place of publication:
Taxon 56:944. 2007
Verified:
03/05/2008 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
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. drummondii (Steud.) de Wet ex Davidse (1 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Andropogon verticilliflorus Steud.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Holcus sorghum L. var. verticilliflorus (Steud.) Hitchc.
Sorghum verticilliflorum (Steud.) Stapf

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
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Reference(s)
  1. Dillon, S. L. et al. 2004. Sorghum laxiflorum and S. macrospermum, the Australian native species most closely related to the cultivated S. bicolor based on ITS1 and ndhF sequence analysis of 25 Sorghum species. Pl. Syst. Evol. 249:233-246. http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/606
  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. Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58. 1990 Note: = S. bicolor subsp. arundinaceum
  4. 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
  5. Wiersema, J. H. & J. Dahlberg. 2007. The nomenclature of Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench (Gramineae). Taxon 56:941-946. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax
Common names
English
common wild sorghum –
Distribution
Native
Africa
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Chad
  • NORTHERN AFRICA: Egypt
  • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Namibia, Eswatini, South Africa
  • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte D'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone
  • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Zaire
Naturalized
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia
Northern America
  • REGION: North America
Southern America
  • REGION: South America
  • MESOAMERICA: Central America
Economic Uses
Animal food
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Kellerman et al., as Sorghum bicolor subsp. arundinaceum) –


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