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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Sorghum

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.