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Key to families | Table of families and genera This text currently parallels The Jepson Manual: Vascular Plants of California, Second Edition that is now available at the University of California Press. Text appearing in blue on this page will not appear in the printed book; it will be displayed only on the Web. Specimen numbers are hyperlinked to records in the Consortium of California Herbaria data view where possible. Taxa are hyperlinked to entries in the Jepson Interchange via the "[Online Interchange]" link. |
Annual, perennial herb, cespitose or rhizomed.
Stem: erect; internodes generally solid.
Leaf: cauline; ligule membranous; blade flat or folded.
Inflorescence: panicle-like, open to compact.
Spikelet: in 2s (3s at branch tips); sessile spikelet bisexual, lower glume leathery, shiny, glabrous to puberulent, florets 2, lower sterile, upper fertile, lemma membranous, fertile lemma generally awned, palea < lemma; stalked spikelets 1–2, staminate; pair with subtending axis segment breaking as a unit.
± 25 species: tropics, subtrop, Africa. Cult for food, forage, sugar. (Latin: sorgo, a grain from Syria)
Unabridged references: [de Wet 1978 Amer J Bot 65:477–484]
1. Annual (occasionally perennial herb); fruit generally exserted at maturity ..... S. bicolor
1' Perennial, rhizomed; fruit included at maturity ..... S. halepense
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) [year] Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/IJM.html [accessed on month, day, year]
Citation for an individual treatment: [Author of taxon treatment] [year]. [Taxon name] in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, [URL for treatment]. Accessed on [month, day, year].
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