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Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench

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Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench, Methodus (Moench) 207 (1794)
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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(L.) Moench
L.
Moench
1794
207
ICN
species
Sorghum bicolor

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bicolor

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Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench

Annual robust tufted plants to 1.5 m. Leaf-sheath chartaceous, somewhat keeled near collar, glabrous, or occasionally with sparse, long, fine hairs, straw-coloured, often suffused or blotched reddish purple. Ligule 2-3 mm, stiffly membranous, ciliate. Leaf-blade 30-90 × (1)-2.5-7 cm, with strong pale creamy midrib, linear-lanceolate, long-tapered, glabrous or rarely with a few sparse hairs, adaxially densely pubescent above ligule; margins and filiform tip finely scabrid. Culm internodes often blotched purplish red, pubescent below panicle. Panicle contracted or open, 18-25 × 4-7-(13) cm, branches stiffly ascending or spreading and sometimes pendulous, usually naked below; rachis stout. Racemes several along each branch. Pedicelled spikelet: glumes linear-lanceolate, subcoriaceous; florets Ø, or upper floret ♂; stamens 3, anthers 2.5 mm. Sessile spikelet: glumes 4-6 mm, elliptic-lanceolate to obovate, glabrous to densely pubescent; lemmas hyaline, pubescent, « glumes, lemma of upper floret often awned; stamens 3, anthers 3 mm; caryopsis c. 2.5 × 1.5 mm.

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Andropogon sorghum (L.) Brot.
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
Andropogon sorghum subsp. cernuus (Ard.) Asch. & Graebn.
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
Andropogon sorghum subsp. saccharatus (L.) Asch. & Graebn.
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
Holcus bicolor L.
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
Holcus cernuus Ard.
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
Holcus dochna Forssk.
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
Holcus durra Forssk.
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
Holcus saccharatus L.
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
Holcus sorghum L.
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
Sorghum cernuum (Ard.) Host
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
Sorghum dochna (Forssk.) Snowden
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
Sorghum durra (Forssk.) Stapf
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
Sorghum saccharatum (L.) Moench
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
Sorghum vulgare subsp. durra (Forssk.) Maire & Weiller
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
Sorghum vulgare subsp. saccharatum (L.) Maire & Weiller
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench

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Australia
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Chile
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Cook Islands
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Cook Islands
Rarotonga
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Fiji
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French Polynesia
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New Caledonia
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New Zealand
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New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
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New Zealand
Otago Land District
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New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
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Niue
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Norfolk Island
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Samoa
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Tonga
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United Kingdom
Cook Islands
Rarotonga

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3701870e-0c6a-41dc-bc8e-ec95898b0b2b
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
17 February 2016
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