Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
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Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench, Methodus (Moench) 207 (1794)
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
Biostatus
Nomenclature
(L.) Moench
L.
Moench
1794
207
ICN
species
Sorghum bicolor
Classification
Subordinates
Vernacular names
Synonyms
- Andropogon sorghum (L.) Brot.
- Andropogon sorghum subsp. cernuus (Ard.) Asch. & Graebn.
- Andropogon sorghum subsp. saccharatus (L.) Asch. & Graebn.
- Holcus bicolor L.
- Holcus cernuus Ard.
- Holcus dochna Forssk.
- Holcus durra Forssk.
- Holcus saccharatus L.
- Holcus sorghum L.
- Sorghum cernuum (Ard.) Host
- Sorghum dochna (Forssk.) Snowden
- Sorghum durra (Forssk.) Stapf
- Sorghum saccharatum (L.) Moench
- Sorghum vulgare Pers.
- Sorghum vulgare subsp. durra (Forssk.) Maire & Weiller
- Sorghum vulgare subsp. saccharatum (L.) Maire & Weiller
Descriptions
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.
Taxonomic concepts
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 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
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
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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1 January 2000
17 February 2016