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Sorghum  Moench
Taxonomic Serial No.: 42106

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Plantae  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s): Blumenbachia Koeler
 
    Sarga Ewart
 
  Common Name(s): sorghum
 
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: accepted  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2010   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomPlantae  – plantes, Planta, Vegetal, plants  
    SubkingdomViridiplantae  – green plants  
       InfrakingdomStreptophyta  – land plants  
          SuperdivisionEmbryophyta   
             DivisionTracheophyta  – vascular plants, tracheophytes  
                SubdivisionSpermatophytina  – spermatophytes, seed plants, phanérogames  
                   ClassMagnoliopsida   
                      SuperorderLilianae  – monocots, monocotyledons, monocotylédones  
                         OrderPoales   
                            FamilyPoaceae  – grasses, graminées  
                               GenusSorghum Moench – sorghum  
    Direct Children:  
                                  Species Sorghum X almum Parodi (pro sp.) – Columbus grass, almum sorghum 
                                  Species Sorghum arundinaceum (Desv.) Stapf  
                                  Species Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench – broom-corn, black amber, chicken corn, shattercane, wild cane, shatter cane, sorghum, broomcorn 
                                  Species Sorghum X drummondii (Nees ex Steud.) Millsp. & Chase – Sudangrass 
                                  Species Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers. – Johnsongrass, Johnson grass, aleppo milletgrass, herbe de Cuba, sorgho d'Alep, sorgo de alepo, zacate Johnson 
                                  Species Sorghum propinquum (Kunth) Hitchc. – sorghum 
                                  Species Sorghum X randolphianum Parodi  
                                  Species Sorghum trichocladum (Rupr. ex Hack.) Kuntze  
       

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  Source: Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae) - 11/2009, database (version 24/11/2009)  
  Acquired: 2009   
  Notes: Maintained by R. J. Soreng et al., at http://www.tropicos.org/Project/CNWG and formerly at http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/nwgc.html   
  Reference for: Sorghum   
       
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Reference for: Sorghum   
       
  Source: Poaceae update, database (version Sept. 2010)  
  Acquired: 2010   
  Notes: Poaceae update for ITIS, in cooperation with NatureServe, and based on the Catalogue of New World Grasses database and other sources   
  Reference for: Sorghum   
       
  Source: The PLANTS Database, database (version 4.0.4)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes: National Plant Data Center, NRCS, USDA. Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA. http://plants.usda.gov   
  Reference for: Sorghum   
       
  Source: The PLANTS Database, database (version 5.1.1)  
  Acquired: 2000   
  Notes: National Plant Data Center, NRCS, USDA. Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA. http://plants.usda.gov   
  Reference for: Sorghum   
       
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