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References:
POWO Catalogue of Life The Plant List Ver.1.1 WCSP IPNI GBIF (High resolution specimens) Wikipedia Useful Tropical Plants Purdue Tropical Forages Checklist of the grasses of India Feedipedia
Andropogon gayanus Kunth, Révis. Gramin. 1: 163 1829. (syn: Sorghum gayanum (Kunth) Kuntze);
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Native range is Cape Verde, Tropical & S. Africa: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, KwaZulu-Natal, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe; Introduced into: Andaman Is., Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Cuba, Laos, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Nicobar Is., Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Western Australia as per POWO;
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Andaman Is.; Angola; Benin; Bolivia; Botswana; Brazil North; Brazil Northeast; Brazil South; Brazil Southeast; Brazil West-Central; Burkina; Burundi; Cameroon; Cape Verde; Caprivi Strip; Central African Repu; Chad; Colombia; Cuba; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Gulf of Guinea Is.; Ivory Coast; KwaZulu-Natal; Laos; Liberia; Malawi; Mali; Mauritania; Mozambique; Namibia; Nicobar Is.; Niger; Nigeria; Northern Provinces; Northern Territory; Philippines; Queensland; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Somalia; Sudan; Suriname; Swaziland; Tanzania; Togo; Trinidad-Tobago; Uganda; Western Australia; Zambia; Zare; Zimbabwe as per Catalogue of Life;
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Native and widely distributed in tropical Africa, north and south of Equator; introduced to other tropical areas, as tropical Queensland, Brazil, India, and western Australia as per Purdue;
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