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Sorghum nitidum (Vahl) Pers.   (redirected from: Sorghum nitidum var. fulvum (R.Br.) Hand.-Mazz.)
Family: Poaceae
[Andropogon nitidus (Vahl) Kunth, moreAndropogon serratus Thunb., Andropogon serratus var. nitidus (Vahl) Hack., Holcus fulvus R.Br., Holcus fulvus var. nitidus (Vahl) Honda, Holcus nitidus Vahl, Sorghum fulvum (R.Br.) P.Beauv., Sorghum nitidum f. aristatum C.E.Hubb., Sorghum nitidum subsp. dichroanthum (Steud.) T.Koyama, Sorghum nitidum var. dichroanthum (Steud.) Ohwi, Sorghum nitidum var. fulvum (R.Br.) Hand.-Mazz., Sorghum nitidum var. majus (Hack.) Ohwi, Sorghum serratum (Thunb.) Kuntze]
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Japan Flora: Tufted perennial; culms 50-120 cm. long, with a ring of long white hairs on nodes; leaf­blades flat, linear, 5-10 mm. wide, sometimes loosely involute, glabrous or pilose on upper surface, glaucous beneath; ligules truncate to semirounded, 1-2.5 mm. long; sheaths pilose around mouth and on margin; panicles exserted, 10-20 cm. long, the branches very slender, terete, with a single raceme, 2-6 cm. long, short-pilose in axils, the lower falsely verticillate; racemes rather numerous, 1-1.5 cm. long, few-jointed, the joints reddish ciliate; pedicelled spikelets staminate, awnless or short-awned, the pedicels similar to and as long as the rachis joints; sessile spikelets broadly lanceolate, brown-pilose, acute, about 5 mm. long; first glume coriaceous, lustrous, dark brown, with a pale green, membranous tip; fertile Iemma re­duced to a geniculate awn 2-2.5 cm. long. Aug.-Oct. Thickets and open places in lowlands.

Honshu (Kii Prov. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. s. Korea, China, and Malaysia. The typical phase occurs in warmer parts of Asia and Australia.

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