''Sorghum arundinaceum'', the common wild sorghum, is a species of flowering plant in the family

Poaceae Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...

. It is native to SubSaharan Africa, Madagascar, many of the Indian Ocean islands, and the Indian Subcontinent, and has been introduced to northern South America, the US states of California and Florida, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, New Guinea, and a number of smaller islands worldwide. It is the wild progenitor of cultivated sorghum, ''

Sorghum bicolor ''Sorghum bicolor'', commonly called sorghum () and also known as great millet, broomcorn, guinea corn, durra, imphee, jowar, or milo, is a Poaceae, grass species cultivated for its grain, which is used for food for humans, animal feed, and ethan ...

'', with some authorities considering it to be a mere variety or subspecies; ''Sorghum bicolor'' var. ''arundinaceum'', or ''Sorghum bicolor'' subsp. ''verticilliflorum''.

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arundinaceum Forages Flora of West Tropical Africa Flora of West-Central Tropical Africa Flora of Northeast Tropical Africa Flora of East Tropical Africa Flora of South Tropical Africa Flora of Southern Africa Flora of the Western Indian Ocean Flora of India (region) Flora of West Himalaya Flora of East Himalaya Plants described in 1917 {{Panicoideae-stub