Sorghum

genus of plants
Taxon taxon Q12111
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Summary

Sorghum is a taxon[1]. Sorghum ranks in the top 0.73% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,799 views/month, #1,428 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: genus[3]
  • Parent taxon: Andropogoninae[4]
  • Taxon name: Sorghum[5]
  • Has use: drink[6], firewood[7]
  • Commons category: Sorghum[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Sorghum[9]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[10], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Encyclopedic Lexicon[13], Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 10(2)[14], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[16]
  • GRIN URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=11304[17]
  • This taxon is source of: sorghum grain[18]
  • Taxon common name: sorghum[19], Durra[20], Mbayeeri[21], Durrat[22], Cirok[23], モロコシ属[24], Сирак[25], Сорго[26], Sirek[27], Sorgo[28], 高粱属[29], Sorgu[30]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Plants[31]

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Identifiers

Sorghum's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 58388[32]. Sorghum's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 4557[33]. Sorghum's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 108216[34]. Sorghum's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2705180[35]. Sorghum's ITIS TSN is recorded as 42106[36].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Sorghum include Broomfield[37], a city in the United States[38], in United States[39], founded in 2001[40].

Why It Matters

Sorghum has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] Sorghum is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]

Entities named for Sorghum include Broomfield[37], a city in the United States[38], in United States[39], founded in 2001[40].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  7. [33] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [36] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [34] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [35] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  28. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [28] ↑ . Nederlands Soortenregister. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  31. [29] ↑ . Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 10(2). wikidata.org.
  32. [30] ↑ . sabencia.net. sabencia.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [38] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [39] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [40] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [41] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [42] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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