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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
Sorghum × almum Parodi	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum amplum Lazarides	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum angustum S.T.Blake	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum arundinaceum (Desv.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum brachypodum Lazarides	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum bulbosum Lazarides	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum burmahicum Raizada	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum controversum (Steud.) Snowden	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum × derzhavinii Tzvelev	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum × drummondii (Steud.) Millsp. & Chase	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum ecarinatum Lazarides	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum exstans Lazarides	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum grande Lazarides	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers.	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum interjectum Lazarides	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum intrans F.Muell. ex Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum laxiflorum F.M.Bailey	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum leiocladum (Hack.) C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum macrospermum Garber	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum matarankense Garber & Snyder	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum miliaceum (Roxb.) Snowden	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum nitidum (Vahl) Pers.	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum plumosum (R.Br.) P.Beauv.	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum propinquum (Kunth) Hitchc.	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum purpureosericeum (A.Rich.) Schweinf. & Asch.	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum stipoideum (Ewart & Jean White) C.A.Gardner & C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum timorense (Kunth) Buse	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum trichocladum (Hack.) Kuntze	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum versicolor Andersson	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghum virgatum (Hack.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 366 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Sorghum. Of these 31 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 238 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 366 species names for the genus Sorghum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	31	8.5%
◕	Synonym	320	87.4%
◕	Unplaced	7	1.9%
◕	Unassessed	8	2.2%

All names

The status of the 604 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Sorghum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	32	5.3%
◕	Synonym	510	84.4%
◕	Unplaced	7	1.2%
◕	Unassessed	55	9.1%

Of these names,

• 11 are recorded as invalid
• 15 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 366 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	300	0	0	330	90.2%
	Medium confidence	0	16	0	0	16	4.4%
	Low confidence	1	4	7	8	20	5.5%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Sorghum, are as follows: