- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
- Common name : Broom-corn, Great Millet, Suger Sorghum, Shattercane, Sorghum
- Vernacular name :
- Jonna (Telugu)
- Jondla, Juari (Marathi)
- Cholam (Malayalam)
- Thalivirichan cholam (Tamil)
- Habit : Herb
- Comments / notes : Cultivated crop
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Idukki district, Kollam district
- Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Punjab : Punjab
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Native : Angola, Benin, Bhutan, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Islands, India, Ivory Coa
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Introduced elsewhere
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah, T., 1997. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 3
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 274
- Henry, Chithra & Balakrishnan (1989). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 3, Bor 1960
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Sorghum bicolor. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Field Image(s)
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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