Taxon: Sorghum propinquum (Kunth) Hitchc.

Economic importance:

• Gene sources: primary genetic relative of sorghum   (hybrids with S. bicolor fully fertile, but both taxa geographically isolated fide Amer J Bot 65:479. 1978; perennial, 2n=20 fide Ann Bot 95:219, 221, 222. 2005)
  
• Weed   (of unknown importance in the Philippines fide Atlas WWeed; Amer J Bot 65:479. 1978, weeds the result of hybridization with S. bicolor)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [s.]; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Indochina; Myanmar; Thailand
  Malesia: Malaysia [Malaya]; Philippines

References:

• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. (Grass BCIP)
• Dillon, S. L. et al. 2004. Sorghum laxiflorum and S. macrospermum, the Australian native species most closely related to the cultivated S. bicolor based on ITS1 and ndhF sequence analysis of 25 Sorghum species. Pl. Syst. Evol. 249:233–246. [this study shows that this taxon forms a clade including S. bicolor within the Section Eusorghum].
• Doggett, H. 1988. Sorghum, 2nd edition. 19.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
• Holttum, R. E. et al. 1953–1971. A revised flora of Malaya. (F Malaya)
• Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia. (Grass SEAs)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Price, H. J. et al. 2005. Genome evolution in the genus Sorghum (Poaceae). Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 95:219–227. [this study confirms the affinity of this taxon with S. bicolor].
• Sun, Y. et al. 1994. Phylogenetic analysis of Sorghum and related taxa using internal transcribed spacers of nuclear ribosomal DNA. Theor. Appl. Genet. 89:26–32. [this study shows that this taxon shares identical ITS sequences than other taxa in the Section Eusorghum].
• de Wet, J. M. J. 1978. Systematics and evolution of Sorghum sect. Sorghum (Gramineae). Amer. J. Bot. 65:478.

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Andropogon propinquus Kunth (basionym)
  

Check other databases for Sorghum propinquum (Kunth) Hitchc.:

• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

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• PlantSystematics.org
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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