Moench, C. (1794), Methodus Plantas Horti Botanici et Agri Marburgensis: 207 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Holcus bicolor L. legitimate

Simon, B.K. (June 1978), A preliminary check-list of Australian grasses. Technical Bulletin, Botany Branch, Queensland Department of Primary Industries 3: 10 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 139 [secondary reference]

common name: Sorghum [n/a]

• Comment: Treated as Sorghum bicolor complex.

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 53 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Sorghum verticilliflorum (Steud.) Stapf legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sorghum sudanense (Piper) Stapf legitimate

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 491 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 37 [secondary reference]

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Poaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 989 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Sorghum vulgare Pers. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. common name: Forage Sorghum [n/a] common name: Grain Sorghum [n/a]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 66 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 251 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Holcus bicolor L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sorghum cernuum (Ard.) Host legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sorghum x drummondii (Nees ex Steud.) Millsp. & Chase legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sorghum roxburghii Stapf legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sorghum dochna (Forssk.) Snowden legitimate common name: Broom Millet [n/a] common name: Sweet Sorghum [n/a] common name: Grain Sorghum [n/a] common name: Forage Sorghum [n/a]

Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Sorghum. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1220 [secondary reference]

common name: Cultivated Sorghum [n/a] common name: Grain Sorghum [n/a] common name: Forage Sorghum [n/a]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 505 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Holcus bicolor L. legitimate common name: Grain Sorghum [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Sorghum. Flora of New South Wales 4: 436 [secondary reference]

common name: Cultivated Sorghums [n/a]

Spangler, R.E. (28 June 2003), Taxonomy of Sarga, Sorghum and Vacoparis (Poaceae: Andropogoneae). Australian Systematic Botany 16(3): 296 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 372 [secondary reference]

common name: Cultivated Sorghums [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Holcus bicolor L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench subsp. bicolor legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (doubtfully naturalised), Tas (sparingly naturalised)

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Holcus bicolor L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench subsp. bicolor legitimate taxonomic synonym: Holcus dochna Forssk. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sorghum dochna (Forssk.) Snowden legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (doubtfully naturalised), Tas (doubtfully naturalised)

Baker, M.L., Wapstra, M. & Lawrence, D. (20 August 2019), An annotated census of the lesser-known naturalised plants of Tasmania. Muelleria 38: 64 [secondary reference]

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