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|accepted_name=Sorghastrum
|accepted_authority=Nash
|publications=
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae;Sorghastrum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sorghastrum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 630
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual or perennial; cespitose, sometimes rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 50-300+ cm, erect, nodding or clambering, unbranched; nodes densely pubescent, particularly in young plants. <b>Leaves</b> not aromatic; ligules membranous, glabrous or pubescent; blades flat, involute, or folded. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, secund or equilateral panicles with evident rachises and numerous branches, not subtended by modified leaves; branches capillary, rebranching, with many rames, not subtended by modified leaves; disarticulation in the rames, beneath the sessile spikelets. <b>Spikelets</b> sessile, subtending a hairy pedicel (2 pedicels in the terminal spikelet units), dorsally compressed. <b>Calluses</b> blunt or sharp; glumes coriaceous; lower glumes pubescent, 5-9-veined, acute; upper glumes slightly longer, usually glabrous, 5-veined, truncate; lower florets reduced to hyaline lemmas; upper florets bisexual, lemmas hyaline, bifid, awned from the sinuses; awns usually once- or twice-geniculate, often spirally twisted, shortly strigose, brownish; anthers 3; ovaries glabrous. <b>Caryopses</b> flattened. <b>Pedicels</b> 3-6.5 mm, slender, not fused to the rame axes; pedicellate spikelets absent, x = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=Conn.;N.J.;N.Y.;Va.;Wis.;Del.;D.C;Man.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;W.Va.;Mass.;Maine;N.H.;R.I.;Vt.;Fla.;Wyo.;Ark.;Kans.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Puerto Rico;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;Colo.;Ala.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Ariz.;Md.;Ohio;Utah;Mo.;Minn.;Mich.;Mont.;Miss.;Ky.
|discussion=<p>Sorghastrum includes about 18 species. Most are native to tropical or subtropical America, two are African, and four are native to the Flora region. Absence of the pedicellate spikelet, while confusing at first, makes Sorghastrum a readily recognizable genus. Its species range from sea level to approximately 3000 m, and can be found in a wide range of habitats. Two species, neither of which occur in the Flora region, are considered good forage.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=davila1988a
|text=Davila, P.D. 1988. Systematic revision of the genus Sorghastrum (Poaceae: Andropogoneae). Ph.D. dissertation, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, U.S.A. 333 pp.
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|id=hall1982a
|text=Hall, D.W. 1982. Sorghastrum (Poaceae) in Florida. Sida 9:302-308
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=sorrie1999a
|text=Sorrie, B.A. and S.W. Leonard. 1999. Noteworthy records of Mississippi vascular plants. Sida 18:889-908.
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Awns 10-22(30) mm long, once-geniculate; plants rhizomatous
|[[Sorghastrum nutans|Sorghastrum nutans]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Awns 21-40 mm long, twice-geniculate; plants not rhizomatous.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Pedicels sharply curved to recurved; panicles secund; sessile spikelets 0.8-1.2 mm wide
|[[Sorghastrum secundum|Sorghastrum secundum]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Pedicels flexuous; panicles not secund; sessile spikelets 1.1-1.8 mm wide
|[[Sorghastrum elliottii|Sorghastrum elliottii]]
|}
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name=Sorghastrum
|author=Patricia D. Dávila Aranda; Stephan L. Hatch;
|authority=Nash
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Conn.;N.J.;N.Y.;Va.;Wis.;Del.;D.C;Man.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;W.Va.;Mass.;Maine;N.H.;R.I.;Vt.;Fla.;Wyo.;Ark.;Kans.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Puerto Rico;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;Colo.;Ala.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Ariz.;Md.;Ohio;Utah;Mo.;Minn.;Mich.;Mont.;Miss.;Ky.
|reference=davila1988a;hall1982a;sorrie1999a
|publication title=
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/314eb390f968962f596ae85f506b4b3db8683b1b/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V25/V25_1535.xml
|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae
|genus=Sorghastrum
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