Poaceae

Disakisperma Steud.

First published in Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 287 (1854)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is W. Central & S. U.S.A. to Central America, W. South America to N. Argentina, Ethiopia to S. Africa, Arabian Peninsula.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Bolivia, Botswana, Burundi, Cape Provinces, Colombia, Colorado, Djibouti, Ecuador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Florida, Free State, Honduras, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Mozambique, Namibia, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Northern Provinces, Oklahoma, Oman, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Carolina, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Texas, Uganda, Yemen, Zaïre

Introduced into:

California, Hawaii, India, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R.H.A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families published update Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Snow, N., Peterson, P.M. & Romaschenko, K. (2013). Systematics of Disakisperma (Poaceae, Chloridoideae, Chlorideae). PhytoKeys 26: 21-70.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0