Poaceae

Sarga Ewart

First published in Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, n.s., 23: 296 (1911)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Mexico to Central America, Dry Tropical Old World to Australia.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesser Sunda Is., Malawi, Mali, Maluku, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Namibia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oman, Queensland, Somalia, Sudan, Sulawesi, Tanzania, Uganda, Victoria, Western Australia, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Thailand

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • (2020). https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.29.226753. epublication.
  • Soreng, R.J. & al. (2022). A worldwide phylogenetic classification of the Poaceae (Gramineae) III: An update. Journal of systematics and evolution.

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (2014-continuously updated). Atlas of Living Australia http://www.ala.org.au/. [Cited as Sorghum.]
  • Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215. [Cited as Sorghum.]

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0