{{Short description|Genus of grasses}} {{Automatic taxobox |name = Indiangrass |image = Sorghastrum nutans EPA-2.jpg |image_caption = ''Sorghastrum nutans'' |display_parents = 4 |taxon = Sorghastrum |authority = Nash<ref name="GRIN">{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?11303 |title=Genus: ''Sorghastrum'' Nash |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=1999-03-09 |access-date=2010-11-06}}</ref> |type_species = ''Sorghastrum avenaceum'' |type_species_authority = (Michx.) Nash. |synonyms_ref = <ref name=f>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=443177 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref><ref name="GRIN"/><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40002204 Tropicos, ''Sorghastrum'' Nash ]</ref> |synonyms = * ''Chalcoelytrum'' <small>Lunell</small> * ''Dipogon'' <small>Steud. 1840, rejected name not Liebm. 1854</small> * ''Poranthera'' <small>Raf. 1830, illegitimate homonym not Rudge 1811 (Phyllanthaceae)</small> * ''Sorghum'' sect. ''Sorghastrum'' <small>(Nash) Stapf</small> * ''Sorghum'' subg. ''Sorghastrum'' <small>(Nash) E.D. Garber</small> }}
'''''Sorghastrum''''' is a genus of grasses, native to Africa and the Americas.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40836068#page/95/mode/1up Nash, George Valentine. 1901. Manual of the Flora of the northern States and Canada page 71]</ref>
Members of the genus are commonly known as '''Indiangrass'''.<ref name="ITIS">{{ITIS |id=42099 |taxon=''Sorghastrum'' |accessdate=2010-11-06}}</ref>
; Selected<ref name=f/><ref name="GRINSpecies">{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?11303 |title=GRIN Species Records of ''Sorghastrum'' |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |access-date=2010-11-06}}</ref><ref name="ITIS"/> * ''Sorghastrum balansae'' <small>(Hack.) Dávila</small> - Paraguay * ''Sorghastrum brunneum'' <small>Swallen</small> - Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras * ''Sorghastrum chaseae'' <small>Swallen</small> - Mato Grosso, Paraíba * ''Sorghastrum contractum'' <small>(Hack.) M.Kuhlm. & Kuhn</small> - Brazil * ''Sorghastrum crassum'' <small>Renvoize</small> - Bolivia * ''Sorghastrum elliottii'' <small>(C.Mohr) Nash</small> – Slender Indiangrass - southeastern + south-central USA (Texas to Virginia) * ''Sorghastrum fuscescens'' <small>(Pilg.) Clayton</small> - Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi * ''Sorghastrum incompletum'' <small>(J.Presl) Nash</small> - Latin America from Mexico to Bolivia; Africa from Senegal to Zimbabwe * ''Sorghastrum minarum'' <small>(Nees) Hitchc.</small> - Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina * ''Sorghastrum nudipes'' <small>Nash</small> - Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora, Limpopo, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi, Angola * ''Sorghastrum nutans'' <small>(L.) Nash</small> – Yellow Indiangrass - Canada, USA, Mexico, Honduras * ''Sorghastrum pellitum'' <small>(Hack.) Parodi</small> - Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay * ''Sorghastrum pogonostachyum'' <small>(Stapf) Clayton</small> - Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi * ''Sorghastrum pohlianum'' <small>Dávila, L.I.Cabrera & R.Lira</small> - Socorro Island in Colima * ''Sorghastrum scaberrimum'' <small>(Nees) Herter</small> - Brazil * ''Sorghastrum secundum'' <small>(Elliott) Nash</small> – Lopsided Indiangrass - southeastern USA; Bahamas * ''Sorghastrum setosum'' <small>(Griseb.) Hitchc.</small> – Sandysoil Indiangrass - Latin America + West Indies from Veracruz to Uruguay * ''Sorghastrum stipoides'' <small>(Kunth) Nash</small> – Needle Indiangrass - tropical + southern Africa; naturalized in Latin America * ''Sorghastrum tisserantii'' <small>Clayton</small> - Central African Rep * ''Sorghastrum viride'' <small>Swallen</small> - Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Commons category-inline|Sorghastrum|''Sorghastrum''}} * {{Wikispecies-inline|Sorghastrum|''Sorghastrum''}} * [http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00592.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]
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