See other conspecific taxa:

• Sorghum bicolor nothosubsp. drummondii (0 accessions)
• Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor (0 accessions)
• Sorghum bicolor subsp. verticilliflorum (0 accessions)

Common names:

• great millet  (Source: BSBI) - English
• Rhodesian Sudan grass  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• sorghum  (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
• sorghum   (Source: ICAW) - English (Canada)
• sorgho commun  (Source: ICAW) - French (Canada)

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHERN AFRICA: Egypt
• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Chad, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon
• WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote D'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone
• SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Eswatini, Namibia, South Africa


Cultivated (cult. throughout tropic, subtropic, & warm-temperate regions)

Naturalized

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia

Northern America

• North America

Southern America

• CENTRAL AMERICA: Central America
• South America

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