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Taxon:
Sorghum
×
almum
Parodi
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Sorghum
Section:
Sorghum
Family:
Poaceae
(alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Subtribe:
Sorghinae
Nomen number:
35129
Place of publication:
Revista Argent. Agron. 10:361. 1943
Comment:
[=
S. bicolor
×
S. halepense
]
Verified:
12/02/1993
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
10
(
10
active,
9
available)
in National Plant Germplasm System.
(Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images
Reference(s)
Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong.
Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource).
URL:
http://botany.si.edu/Antilles/WestIndies/results.cfm
Burkart, A. E., ed.
1969-. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios.
de Wet, J. M. J.
1978. Systematics and evolution of
Sorghum
sect.
Sorghum
(Gramineae). Amer. J. Bot. 65:478.
URL:
http://www.amjbot.org
Note:
mentions
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.
URL:
http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/606
Note:
clusters with
Sorghum bicolor
subsp.
verticilliflorum
(as
S. drummondii
)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
URL:
http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Sorghum+x+almum&quantity=1
Holm, L. et al.
1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds
International Seed Testing Association.
1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Kingsbury, J. M.
1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
Lazarides, M. et al.
1991. Taxonomy, cytology, and ecology of indigenous Australian sorghums (
Sorghum
Moench: Andropogoneae: Poaceae). Austral. Syst. Bot. 4:603.
URL:
http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/151.htm
Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
National Herbarium of New South Wales.
1961-1984. Flora of New South Wales.
Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson.
1992. Noxious weeds of Australia Inkata Press, Melbourne, Australia.
Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Seed Regulatory and Testing Division, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A.
State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act (updated annually).
URL:
http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELPRDC5090172
't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds.
1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 4:203.
URL:
http://proseanet.org
Turrill, W. B. et al., eds.
1952-. Flora of tropical East Africa.
Note:
=
Sorghum bicolor
×
S. halepense
Tzvelev, N. N.
1976. Zlaki SSSR
Note:
=
Sorghum halepense
×
S. sudanense
Zuloaga, F. O. et al.
1994. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en la República Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47
Note:
with two varieties
Zuloaga, F. O. et al.
2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:606.
Common names
English
almum grass –
Reference(s)
almum sorghum –
Reference(s)
Columbus grass –
Reference(s)
French
sorgho d'Argentine –
Reference(s)
German
Columbusgras –
Reference(s)
Italian
sorgo almo –
Reference(s)
Spanish
sorgo negro –
Reference(s)
Distribution
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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
natural hybrid arising from cult. & weedy
Sorghum
Native
Southern America
SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Argentina
,
Paraguay
,
Uruguay
Naturalized
Southern America
CARIBBEAN:
West Indies
,
Cuba
Other
(natural hybrid arising from cult. & weedy
Sorghum
)
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.
URL:
http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/151.htm
Vertebrate poisons
mammals
Kingsbury, J. M.
1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
Weed
potential seed contaminant
Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson.
1992. Noxious weeds of Australia Inkata Press, Melbourne, Australia.
Name
References