Summary
Place of publication:
Revista Argent. Agron. 10:361. 1943
Comment:
[= S. bicolor × S. halepense]
Verified:
12/02/1993
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
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Common names
English
almum grass – almum sorghum – Columbus grass – French
sorgho d'Argentine – German
Columbusgras – Italian
sorgo almo – Spanish
sorgo negro –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Paraguay | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Uruguay | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | Cuba | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | West Indies | | |
6 | Other | | | | | |
Native
Southern America
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SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay
Naturalized
Southern America
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CARIBBEAN:
West Indies, Cuba
Other
()
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Animal food | forage | | Lazarides, M. et al. 1991. Taxonomy, cytology, and ecology of indigenous Australian sorghums (Sorghum Moench: Andropogoneae: Poaceae). Austral. Syst. Bot. 4:603. |
Vertebrate poisons | mammals | | Kingsbury, J. M. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. 1964 |
Weed | potential seed contaminant | | Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. Noxious weeds of Australia. 1992 |
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System.
2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network
(GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=35129.
Accessed 6 October 2024.