Desmostachya

Desmostachya
Desmostachya
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Desmostachya
(Stapf) Stapf [1]
Synonyms[1][2]

Desmostachya is a genus of grass in the Poaceae family.

Taxonomy

The genus Desmostachya was originally published as Eragrostis sect. Desmostachya in The Flora of British India 7: 324. 1897. Somehow two prominent botanists, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911) and Otto Stapf (1857–1933), were originally each credited separately as the naming authority for the taxon (the type specimen for this section of Eragrostis being Eragrostis cynosuroides (Retz.) P.Beauv., itself based on a previous species taxon, Poa cynosuroides Retz.). It is generally accepted that Eragrostis sect. Desmostachya Hook.f. is the correct name for the taxon. However, E. sect. Desmostachya Stapf is accepted as the basionym for the genus name Desmostachya. A year after it was published as a section of Eragrostis, Desmostachya was published as a genus in its own right in Flora Capensis 7: 316. 1898.[1] Two species are recognized:

  • Desmostachya bipinnata (L.) Stapf (commonly known variously as, Kusha grass, Kusa grass, or Darbha Grass )
  • Desmostachya cynosuroides Stapf ex Massey
List source : [3]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Name - !Desmostachya (Stapf) Stapf". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40028701. Retrieved June 15, 2011. "Annotation: non Desmostachys Miers (1852) [Icacinaceae]" 
  2. ^  Stapfolia was published in Lexikon Generum Phanerogamarum 532. 1903. "Name - *Stapfiola Kuntze". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40004449. Retrieved June 15, 2011. "Annotation: nom. illeg. superfl.; as new name for Desmostachya (Stapf) Stapf, non Desmostachys Miers, but these two names not considered to be homonyms" 
  3. ^ "Name - !Desmostachya (Stapf) Stapf subordinate taxa". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40028701?tab=subordinatetaxa. Retrieved June 15, 2011. 

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