Desmazeria

Desmazeria
Desmazeria sicula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Desmazeria
Dumort.
Type species
Desmazeria sicula
(Jacq.) Dumort.
Synonyms[1]
  • Demazeria Dumort., alternate spelling
  • Brizopyrum Link

Desmazeria is a genus of Mediterranean plants in the grass family, related to Catapodium.[2][3]

The genus is named for John Baptiste Henri Joseph Desmazières, (1796-1862) a French merchant, amateur botanist, and editor of scientific journals.[4]

Species[1][5][6]
  1. Desmazeria lorentii H.Scholz - Tunisia, Libya
  2. Desmazeria philistaea (Boiss.) H.Scholz - Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
  3. Desmazeria pignattii Brullo & Pavone - Sicily
  4. Desmazeria sicula (Jacq.) Dumort. - Sicily, Sardinia, Calabria, Spain, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia
formerly included[1]

see Castellia Catapodium Cutandia Halopyrum Sclerochloa Tribolium Wangenheimia

  • Desmazeria acutiflora - Tribolium acutiflorum
  • Desmazeria alternans - Tribolium alternans
  • Desmazeria balearica - Catapodium marinum
  • Desmazeria capensis - Tribolium uniolae
  • Desmazeria castellana - Wangenheimia lima
  • Desmazeria composita - Tribolium obtusifolium
  • Desmazeria compressa - Sclerochloa woronowii
  • Desmazeria loliacea - Catapodium marinum
  • Desmazeria marina - Catapodium marinum
  • Desmazeria marina subsp. pauciflora - Wangenheimia lima
  • Desmazeria oblitera - Tribolium obliterum
  • Desmazeria pauciflora - Wangenheimia lima
  • Desmazeria rigescens - Cutandia rigescens
  • Desmazeria rigida - Catapodium rigidum
  • Desmazeria triticea - Catapodium marinum
  • Desmazeria tuberculosa (Moris) Bonnier 1896 not Trab. 1884 - Castellia tuberculosa
  • Desmazeria uniolae - Tribolium uniolae
  • Desmazeria unioloides - Halopyrum mucronatum
  • Desmazeria woronowii - Sclerochloa woronowii

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Dumortier, Barthélemy Charles Joseph. 1822. Commentationes Botanicae 26
  3. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  4. The Names of Plants, D. Gledhill, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. Rep. 1996. ISBN 0521366755.p.93
  5. Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Desmazeria
  6. The Plant List, search for Desmazeria