Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.
Poaceae Barnhart
Sorghum bicolor ( L.) Moench
, legitimate , scientific
Moench, C. (1794) , Methodus Plantas Horti Botanici et Agri Marburgensis :
207
[comb. nov.]
basionym:
Holcus bicolor L.
legitimate
Simon, B.K. (June 1978) , A preliminary check-list of Australian grasses. Technical Bulletin, Botany Branch, Queensland Department of Primary Industries 3 :
10
[secondary reference]
Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981) , Plants of Western New South Wales :
139
[secondary reference]
common name:
Sorghum
[n/a]
Treated as Sorghum bicolor complex.
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales :
53
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Sorghum verticilliflorum ( Steud.) Stapf
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sorghum sudanense ( Piper) Stapf
legitimate
Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981) , Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia :
491
[secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (1985) , Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2 :
37
[secondary reference]
Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987) , Poaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2 :
989
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Sorghum vulgare Pers.
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
common name:
Forage Sorghum
[n/a]
common name:
Grain Sorghum
[n/a]
Dunlop, C.R. (1987) , Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26 :
66
[secondary reference]
Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989) , Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3 :
251
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Holcus bicolor L.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sorghum cernuum ( Ard.) Host
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sorghum x drummondii (Nees ex Steud.) Millsp. & Chase
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sorghum roxburghii Stapf
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sorghum dochna ( Forssk.) Snowden
legitimate
common name:
Broom Millet
[n/a]
common name:
Sweet Sorghum
[n/a]
common name:
Grain Sorghum
[n/a]
common name:
Forage Sorghum
[n/a]
Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992) , Sorghum. Flora of the Kimberley Region :
1220
[secondary reference]
common name:
Cultivated Sorghum
[n/a]
common name:
Grain Sorghum
[n/a]
common name:
Forage Sorghum
[n/a]
Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993) , Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50 :
505
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Holcus bicolor L.
legitimate
common name:
Grain Sorghum
[n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993) , Sorghum. Flora of New South Wales 4 :
436
[secondary reference]
common name:
Cultivated Sorghums
[n/a]
Spangler, R.E. (28 June 2003) , Taxonomy of Sarga, Sorghum and Vacoparis (Poaceae: Andropogoneae). Australian Systematic Botany 16(3) :
296
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008) , Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4 :
372
[secondary reference]
common name:
Cultivated Sorghums
[n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009) , Australian Plant Census :
-
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Holcus bicolor L.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Sorghum bicolor ( L.) Moench subsp. bicolor
legitimate
APC Dist.:
WA (naturalised), CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (doubtfully naturalised), Tas (sparingly naturalised)
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016) , Australian Plant Census :
-
APC
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Holcus bicolor L.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Sorghum bicolor ( L.) Moench subsp. bicolor
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Holcus dochna Forssk.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sorghum dochna ( Forssk.) Snowden
legitimate
APC Dist.:
WA (naturalised), CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (doubtfully naturalised), Tas (doubtfully naturalised)
Baker, M.L., Wapstra, M. & Lawrence, D. (20 August 2019) , An annotated census of the lesser-known naturalised plants of Tasmania. Muelleria 38 :
64
[secondary reference]