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

Genus:

Sorghum

Section:

Sorghum

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Panicoideae

Tribe:

Andropogoneae

Subtribe:

Sorghinae

Nomen number:

454737

Place of publication:

Taxon 56:944. 2007

Link to protologue:

Name Verified on:

05-Mar-2008 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

Other conspecific taxa:

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

(=) Andropogon arundinaceus Willd.
(=) Andropogon sorghum subsp. vogelianus Piper
(=) Andropogon sorghum var. aethiopicus Hack.
(=) Andropogon sorghum var. effusus Hack.
(=) Andropogon sorghum var. virgatus Hack.
(=) Andropogon stapfii Hook. f.
Basionym: Andropogon verticilliflorus Steud.
(=) Holcus sorghum var. effusus Hitchc.
(≡) Holcus sorghum var. verticilliflorus (Steud.) Hitchc.
(=) Rhaphis arundinacea Desv.
(=) Sorghum aethiopicum (Hack.) Rupr. ex Stapf
(=) Sorghum arundinaceum (Desv.) Stapf
(=) Sorghum bicolor subsp. arundinaceum (Desv.) de Wet & J. R. Harlan ex Davidse
(=) Sorghum brevicarinatum Snowden
(=) Sorghum lanceolatum Stapf
(=) Sorghum macrochaeta Snowden
(=) Sorghum pugionifolium Snowden
(=) Sorghum stapfii (Hook. f.) C. E. C. Fisch.
(=) Sorghum usambarense Snowden
(≡) Sorghum verticilliflorum (Steud.) Stapf
(=) Sorghum virgatum (Hack.) Stapf
(=) Sorghum vogelianum (Piper) Stapf

Common names:

common wild sorghum (Source: Grass SAfr) - English

Economic Importance:

Animal food: forage (as Sorghum arundinaceum)
Vertebrate poisons: mammals (as Sorghum bicolor subsp. arundinaceum)

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

Naturalized

Asia-Tropical

INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India

Australasia

AUSTRALIA: Australia

Northern America

North America

Southern America

CENTRAL AMERICA: Central America
South America

References:

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.
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.
Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58 Note: = Sorghum bicolor subsp. arundinaceum
Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
Wiersema, J. H. & J. Dahlberg. 2007. The nomenclature of Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench (Gramineae). Taxon 56:941-946.

Check other web resources for Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench subsp. verticilliflorum (Steud.) de Wet ex Wiersema & J. Dahlb. :

PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
On-line Flora of Zimbabwe:
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
PubAg: USDA's National Agricultural Library database of full-text journal articles and citations on the agricultural sciences.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=454737. Accessed 1 July 2024.