''Sorghum arundinaceum'', the common wild sorghum, is a species of flowering plant in the family
Poaceae
Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivate ...
.
It is native to SubSaharan Africa, Madagascar, many of the Indian Ocean islands, and the Indian Subcontinent, and has been introduced to northern South America, the US states of California and Florida, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, New Guinea, and a number of smaller islands worldwide.
It is the wild progenitor of cultivated sorghum, ''
Sorghum bicolor
''Sorghum bicolor'', commonly called sorghum () and also known as great millet, broomcorn, guinea corn, durra, imphee, jowar, or milo, is a species in the grass genus ''Sorghum'' cultivated for its grain. The grain is used as food by humans, ...
'', with some authorities considering it to be a mere variety or subspecies; ''Sorghum bicolor'' var. ''arundinaceum'', or ''Sorghum bicolor'' subsp. ''verticilliflorum''.
References
arundinaceum
Forages
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Flora of West-Central Tropical Africa
Flora of Northeast Tropical Africa
Flora of East Tropical Africa
Flora of South Tropical Africa
Flora of Southern Africa
Flora of the Western Indian Ocean
Flora of India (region)
Flora of West Himalaya
Flora of East Himalaya
Plants described in 1917
Taxa named by Nicaise Auguste Desvaux
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