Sorghastrum Nash

First published in N.L.Britton, Man. Fl. N. States: 71 (1901)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is America, Tropical & S. Africa.

Distribution

Native to:

Alabama, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Arkansas, Bahamas, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Chad, Colombia, Colorado, Congo, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kansas, Kentucky, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Louisiana, Maine, Malawi, Mali, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mauritania, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Mozambique, Namibia, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Provinces, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Québec, Rhode I., Saskatchewan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Carolina, South Dakota, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tennessee, Texas, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Uruguay, Utah, Venezuela, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Ecuador, Madagascar, Peru, Suriname

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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PAFTOL

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • (2020). https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.29.226753. epublication.
  • Govaerts, R.H.A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families published update Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • in Britton, Man. Fl. North U.S. 71 (1901).

Flora Zambesiaca

  • in Britton, Man. Fl. N. States: 71 (1901).

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • in Britton, Man. Fl. North. U.S.: 71 (1901)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 2014 s.coll. [s.n.] Brazil K001059428 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Hatschbach, G. [33927] Brazil K001059431 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Hatschbach, G. [35999] Brazil K001059430 Yes
Burchell [6876] Brazil K001059369 Yes
Hatschbach, G.; Schinini, A.; Silva, J.M. [58681] Brazil K001059432 Yes
Dique, P.; Manhiça, C.; Félix, A.; Manuel, C. [PD014] Mozambique K009001467 No
Peterson, P. M.; Campos-Villanueva, A. [9786] Mexico K001614686 Yes
Brazil K000632982 Unknown Type Material Yes
Hatschbach, G.; Schinini, A.; Silva, J.M. [58726] Brazil K001059429 Yes
Longhi-Wagner, H.M. [9254] Brazil K001106140 Yes

Sources

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
  • GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora

    • Clayton, W.D., Vorontsova, M.S., Harman, K.T. and Williamson, H. (2006 onwards). GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora.
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • 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
  • 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