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Sorghastrum

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Annuals or perennials. Inflorescence a panicle with elongated central axis; primary branches bearing short racemes. Rhachis internodes and pedicels slender. Spikelets of each pair markedly different; the sessile spikelet fertile, the pedicellate spikelet (mostly in ours) reduced to a barren pedicel. Sessile spikelet: lower glume coriaceous, keeled at apex; upper glume broadly convex; upper lemma awned.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Sorghastrum Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=229
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Sorghastrum

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Sorghastrum is a genus of grasses, native to Africa and the Americas.[4]

Members of the genus are commonly known as Indiangrass.[5]

Selected[2][6][5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Genus: Sorghastrum Nash". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 1999-03-09. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
  2. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ^ Tropicos, Sorghastrum Nash
  4. ^ Nash, George Valentine. 1901. Manual of the Flora of the northern States and Canada page 71
  5. ^ a b "Sorghastrum". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
  6. ^ "GRIN Species Records of Sorghastrum". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2010-11-06.

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Sorghastrum: Brief Summary

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Sorghastrum is a genus of grasses, native to Africa and the Americas.

Members of the genus are commonly known as Indiangrass.

Selected Sorghastrum balansae (Hack.) Dávila - Paraguay Sorghastrum brunneum Swallen - Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras Sorghastrum chaseae Swallen - Mato Grosso, Paraíba Sorghastrum contractum (Hack.) M.Kuhlm. & Kuhn - Brazil Sorghastrum crassum Renvoize - Bolivia Sorghastrum elliottii (C.Mohr) Nash – Slender Indiangrass - southeastern + south-central USA (Texas to Virginia) Sorghastrum fuscescens (Pilg.) Clayton - Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi Sorghastrum incompletum (J.Presl) Nash - Latin America from Mexico to Bolivia; Africa from Senegal to Zimbabwe Sorghastrum minarum (Nees) Hitchc. - Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina Sorghastrum nudipes Nash - Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora, Limpopo, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi, Angola Sorghastrum nutans (L.) Nash – Yellow Indiangrass - Canada, USA, Mexico, Honduras Sorghastrum pellitum (Hack.) Parodi - Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay Sorghastrum pogonostachyum (Stapf) Clayton - Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi Sorghastrum pohlianum Dávila, L.I.Cabrera & R.Lira - Socorro Island in Colima Sorghastrum scaberrimum (Nees) Herter - Brazil Sorghastrum secundum (Elliott) Nash – Lopsided Indiangrass - southeastern USA; Bahamas Sorghastrum setosum (Griseb.) Hitchc. – Sandysoil Indiangrass - Latin America + West Indies from Veracruz to Uruguay Sorghastrum stipoides (Kunth) Nash – Needle Indiangrass - tropical + southern Africa; naturalized in Latin America Sorghastrum tisserantii Clayton - Central African Rep Sorghastrum viride Swallen - Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay
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