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Taxon:  Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench nothosubsp. drummondii (Steud.) de Wet ex Davidse



Summary
Genus:
Sorghum
Section:
Sorghum
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Subtribe:
Sorghinae
Nomen number:
410498
Place of publication:
Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45:1258. 1993 (J. M. J. de Wet, Amer. J. Bot. 65:481. 1978, nom. inval.)
Comment:
  • [= S. bicolor subsp. bicolor × S. bicolor subsp. verticilliflorum]
  • de Wet failed to provide a full reference to the basionym, citing only S. drummondii (Steud.) Millsp. & Chase
Verified:
03/05/2008 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
5 (5  active, 5  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench (6598 active accession[s])
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench subsp. bicolor (0 active accession[s])
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench subsp. verticilliflorum (Steud.) de Wet ex Wiersema & J. Dahlb. (1 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Andropogon drummondii Steud.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Andropogon sorghum (L.) Brot. var. drummondii (Steud.) Hack.
Sorghum ×drummondii (Steud.) Nees ex Millsp. & Chase
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench var. drummondii (Steud.) Mohlenbr.
Sorghum vulgare Pers. var. drummondii (Steud.) Hitchc.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Andropogon sorghum (L.) Brot. subsp. hewisonii Piper
Andropogon sorghum (L.) Brot. subsp. sudanensis Piper
Holcus sorghum L. var. hewisonii (Piper) Hitchc.
Holcus sorghum L. var. sudanensis (Piper) Hitchc.
Sorghum hewisonii (Piper) Longley
Sorghum niloticum (Stapf ex Piper) Snowden
Sorghum sudanense (Piper) Stapf
Sorghum vulgare Pers. var. sudanense (Piper) Hitchc.
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Reference(s)
  1. de Wet, J. M. J. 1978. Systematics and evolution of Sorghum sect. Sorghum (Gramineae). Amer. J. Bot. 65:481.
  2. Dillon, S. L. et al. 2007. Sorghum resolved as a distinct genus based on combined ITS1, ndhF and Adh1 analyses. Pl. Syst. Evol. 268:29-43.
  3. Dillon, S. L. et al. 2007. Sorghum resolved as a distinct genus based on combined ITS1, ndhF and Adh1 analyses. Pl. Syst. Evol. 268:29-43.
  4. FNA Editorial Committee. Flora of North America. 1993-
  5. Godwin, I. 2009. Plant germplasm collections as sources of useful genes. Plant molecular breeding. 2009 134-151.
  6. Harlan, J. R. & J. M. J. de Wet. 1976. A simplified classification of cultivated Sorghum. Crop Sci. (Madison) 12:176.
  7. International Seed Testing Association. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2. 1982
  8. Kellerman, T. S. et al. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. 1988
  9. Krizek, D. 2008. pers. comm.
  10. Mabberley, D. J. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. 1997
  11. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  12. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  13. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952-
  14. Wiersema, J. H. & J. Dahlberg. 2007. The nomenclature of Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench (Gramineae). Taxon 56:944.
  15. Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:600.
  16. Federal Seed Act and Regulations, Agricultural and Vegetable Kind Lists, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch. 1998
Common names
English
chicken-corn –
shattercane –
sordan –
sorghum-sudangrass –
Sudan grass –
French
sorgho du Soudan –
sorgho menu –
German
Sudangras –
Italian
sorgo gentile –
Spanish
pasto Sudán –
Distribution
Cultivated ()
Naturalized ()
Economic Uses
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=410498. Accessed 6 April 2025.

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