Sorghum bicolor

Taxonavigation

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Taxonavigation: Poales 
Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Cladus: Commelinids
Ordo: Poales

Familia: Poaceae
Subfamilia: Panicoideae
Tribus: Andropogoneae
Subtribus: Sorghinae
Genus: Sorghum
Species: S. amplum – S. arundinaceum – S. bicolor – S. brachypodum – S. bulbosum – S. burmahicum – S. controversum – S. ecarinatum – S. exstans – S. grande – S. halepense – S. interjectum – S. laxiflorum – S. macrospermum – S. matarankense – S. nitidum – S. propinquum – S. virgatum
Nothospecies: S. x drummondii

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Synonyms

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  • Heterotypic

Distribution

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Native distribution areas:
  • Continental: Africa, Caucasus to C. Asia and Pacific
      • Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Congo, Cook Is., Cyprus, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Hainan, India, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Korea, Kuwait, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Madeira, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Marianas, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, North Caucasus, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Queensland, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Somalia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

++Introduced into:

      • Alabama, Albania, Amur, Andaman Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Aruba, Assam, Austria, Azores, Bahamas, Baleares, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Bulgaria, California, Cayman Is., Central European Rus, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Colombia, Colorado, Comoros, Connecticut, Corse, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Desventurados Is., District of Columbia, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Easter Is., Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Florida, France, French Guiana, Galápagos, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Hungary, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Italy, Jamaica, Kansas, Kentucky, Khabarovsk, Kriti, Krym, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Maine, Manchuria, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, Nevada, New Caledonia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nicaragua, Niue, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, North Dakota, Ogasawara-shoto, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Pitcairn Is., Portugal, Primorye, Puerto Rico, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Sakhalin, Samoa, Sardegna, Sicilia, Society Is., Solomon Is., South Carolina, South Dakota, South European Russi, Spain, St.Helena, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Tennessee, Texas, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, Uruguay, Utah, Venezuela, Vermont, Virginia, Wake I., Wallis-Futuna Is., Washington, West Virginia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yugoslavia

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

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Primary references

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Additional references

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  • Dillon S.L., Lawrence P.K. & Henry R.J. (2001) The use of ribosomal ITS to determine phylogenetic relationships within Sorghum. Plant Systematics and Evolution, 230: 97–110.
  • Spangler, R.E. (2003) Taxonomy of Sarga, Sorghum and Vacoparis (Poaceae: Andropogoneae). Australian Systematic Botany, 16(3): 279–299.
  • Dillon S.L., Lawrence P.K., Henry R.J., Ross L., Price H.J. & Johnston J.S. (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, Plant Systematics and Evolution, 249: 233–246.
  • Dillon S.L., Lawrence P.K., Henry R.J. & Price H.J. (2007) Sorghum resolved as a distinct genus based on combined ITS1, ndhF and Adh1 analyses, Plant Systematics and Evolution, 268: 29–43.
  • Dickson N., Geleta, M. Fatih, M. & Bryngelsson, T. (2010) Phylogenetic analysis of the genus Sorghum based on combined sequence data from cpDNA regions and ITS generate well-supported trees with two major lineages, Annals of Botany, 105 (3): 471–480. Available on line. Accessed Dec. 7 2013.
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Vernacular names

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беларуская: Сорга
bamanankan: Keninge
dansk: Durra
Deutsch: Mohrenhirse
English: Sorghum
Fulfulde: Mbayeeri
suomi: Durrat
magyar: Cirok
日本語: モロコシ属
македонски: Сирак
русский: Сорго
slovenščina: Sirek
 
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