The kind Sorghum (sorghums) is a kind of Plante S herbaceous of the family of the Poaceae (Graminaceous) which includes/understands a score of Espèce S of the moderate and hot areas. Several of them are cultivated like fodder plants or Céréale S.

The sorghums undoubtedly more used is the common Sorgho ( Sorghum bicolor ). Nevertheless, one uses also hybrids like the sorghum of Sudan ( Sorghum ×drummondii ) as well as other species.

Sorghum is derived from a word of Indian origin sorghi indicating these plants. The sorghum makes it possible to obtain the millet.

Principal species

• Sorghum ×almum Parodi
• Sorghum amplum Lazarides
• Sorghum angustum S.T. Blake
• Sorghum arundinaceum (Desv.) Stapf
• Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench, (synonym: Sorghum vulgare Sea-green .), the common Sorghum
• Sorghum brachypodum Lazarides
• Sorghum bulbosum Lazarides
• Sorghum caudatum Stapf
• Sorghum ×drummondii (Steudel) Millsp. &
• Sorghum ecarinatum Lazarides
• Sorghum exstans Lazarides
• Sorghum large Lazarides
• Sorghum halepense Drives out (L.) Sea-green., the Sorghum of Alep
• Sorghum interjectum Lazarides
• Sorghum intrans F. Muell. ex Benth.
• Sorghum laxiflorum F. Mr. Bailey
• Sorghum leiocladum (Hack.) E.C. Hubb.
• Sorghum macrospermum E.D. Garber
• Sorghum matarankense E.D. Garber & Snyder
• Sorghum nitidum (Vahl) Sea-green.
• Sorghum plumosum (R. Br.) P. Beauv.
• Sorghum propinquum (Kunth) Hitchc.
• Sorghum purpureosericeum (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Asch. & Schweinf.
• Sorghum stipoideum (Ewart & Jean White) A.C. Gardner & E.C. Hubb.
• Sorghum timorense (Kunth) Tube
• Sorghum versicolor Andersson

External bonds

Simple: Sorghum Zh-min-nan: Lô͘-