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The genus Sorghum is in the family Poaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Sorghum

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Sorghum × almum Parodi	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum amplum Lazarides	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum angustum S.T.Blake	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum annuum Trab.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum arundinaceum (Desv.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum aterrimum Stapf	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	2
Sorghum brachypodum Lazarides	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum bulbosum Lazarides	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum burmahicum Raizada	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum controversum (Steud.) Snowden	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum × derzhavinii Tzvelev	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum × drummondii (Nees ex Steud.) Millsp. & Chase	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum ecarinatum Lazarides	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum elliotii Stapf	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum exstans Lazarides	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum grande Lazarides	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum hewisonii (Piper) Longley	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum interjectum Lazarides	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum intrans F.Muell. ex Benth.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum laxiflorum F.M.Bailey	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum leiocladum (Hack.) C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum macrospermum Garber	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum matarankense Garber & Snyder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum miliaceum (Roxb.) Snowden	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum negrosense Nesom	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum niloticum (Stapf ex Piper) Snowden	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum nitens (Busse & Pilg.) Snowden	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum nitidum (Vahl) Pers.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum plumosum (R.Br.) P.Beauv.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum propinquum (Kunth) Hitchc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum purpureosericeum (A.Rich.) Schweinf. & Asch.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum × randolphianum Parodi	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum scoparium Cavadas	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum stipoideum (Ewart & Jean White) C.A.Gardner & C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum thonizzii Pasq.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum timorense (Kunth) Buse	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum trichocladum (Hack.) Kuntze	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum versicolor Andersson	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghum virgatum (Hack.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 249 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Sorghum. Of these 31 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 372 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Sorghum. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 249 species names for the genus Sorghum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	31	12.4%
◕	Synonym	208	83.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	10	4.0%

All names

The status of the 621 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Sorghum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	32	5.2%
◕	Synonym	539	86.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	50	8.1%

Of the species names,

• 19 are recorded as invalid
• 19 are recorded as illegitimate
• 5 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 249 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Sorghum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	30	96	0	0	126	50.6%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	0.8%
	Low confidence	1	110	0	10	121	48.6%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Sorghum is as follows: