Sorghum
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Sorghum

grass
johnsongrass
sorghum
sudangrass

Hierarchical position of the Genus Sorghum

   Regnum  Plantae
common name: The plant kingdom
  
   Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist
syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: angiosperms, flowering plants
  
   Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: Angiosperms
  
   Classis  Liliopsida Brongn.
pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843.
common name: Monocots
  
   Subclassis  Commelinidae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 171. Jan-Mar 1967.
common name: Grasses, Sedges, Rushes
  
   SuperOrdo  Juncanae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 510. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   Ordo  Poales Small
pub. Fl. S.E. U.S.: 48. 1903.
  
   Familia  Poaceae (R. Br.) Barnh.
pub. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 7. 15 Jan 1895, nom. cons.
common name: Gramineae
  
   Familia  Gramineae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 28. 4 Aug 1789, nom. cons.
  
   Genus  Sorghum Moench
common name: sorghum
  

Named members of the Genus Sorghum

1
   Species  aethiopicum (Hackel) Rupr. ex Stapf
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. arundinaceum
2
   Species  almum Parodi
common name: Columbus grass
3
   Species  arundinaceum (Desv.) Stapf
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. arundinaceum
4
   Species  bicolor (L.) Moench
common name: black sorghum
  
 
5
   Varietas  aethiopicum (Hack.) de Wet & Huckabay
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. arundinaceum
6
   Subspecies  arundinaceum (Desv.) de Wet & Harlan
common name: common wild sorghum
7
   Subspecies  bicolor
common name: grain sorghum
8
   Varietas  caffrorum (Retz.) Mohlenbrock
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. bicolor
9
   Subspecies  drummondii (Nees ex Steud.) de Wet & Harlan
common name: Sudangrass
10
   Varietas  drummondii (Nees ex Steud.) Mohlenbrock
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. drummondii
11
   Varietas  sudanense (Piper) A.S. Hitchc.
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. drummondii
12
   Varietas  virgatum (Hack.) de Wet & Huckabay
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. arundinaceum
13
   Species  caffrorum (Retz.) Beauv.
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. bicolor
14
   Species  cernuum (Ard.) Host
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. bicolor
15
   Species  dochna (Forsk.) Snowden
 
16
   Varietas  technicum (Koern.) Snowden
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. bicolor
17
   Species  drummondii (Nees ex Steud.) Millsp. & Chase p.p.
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. bicolor
18
   Species  durra (Forsk.) Stapf
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. bicolor
19
   Species  guineense Stapf
syn. Sorghum bicolor
20
   Species  halepense (L.) Pers.
common name: Johnsongrass
  
21
   Species  lanceolatum Stapf
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. arundinaceum
22
   Species  miliaceum (Roxb.) Snowden
syn. Sorghum halepense
23
   Species  nervosum Besser ex Schultes
syn. Sorghum bicolor
24
   Species  propinquum (Kunth) Hitchc.
common name: sorghum
25
   Species  saccharatum (L.) Moench
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. bicolor
26
   Species  subglabrescens Schweinf. & Aschers.
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. bicolor
27
   Species  sudanense (Piper) Stapf
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. drummondii
common name: Sudan grass
  
28
   Species  verticilliflorum (Steud.) Stapf
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. arundinaceum
29
   Species  virgatum (Hack.) Stapf
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. arundinaceum
30
   Species  vulgare Pers.
 
31
   Varietas  caffrorum (Retz.) Hubbard & Rehd.
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. bicolor
32
   Varietas  drummondii (Nees ex Steud.) Hack. ex Chiov.
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. drummondii
33
   Varietas  durra (Forsk.) Hubbard & Rehd.
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. bicolor
34
   Varietas  roxburghii (Stapf) Haines
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. bicolor
35
   Varietas  saccharatum (L.) Boerl.
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. bicolor
36
   Varietas  technicum (Koern.) J�v.
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. bicolor

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

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For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

 

Last reviewed November 01, 2004   

 

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