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Genus of grasses

Dichaetaria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Genus: Dichaetaria
Nees ex Steud.
Species: D. wightii
Binomial name
Dichaetaria wightii
Nees ex Steud.
Synonyms
  • Aristida linarifolia Rottler ex Hook.f.
  • Gymnopogon rigidus Thwaites
  • Gymnopogon wightii (Nees ex Steud.) Koord.

Dichaetaria is a monotypic genus of South Asian plants in the grass family. Its only species is Dichaetaria wightii, native to southern India and Sri Lanka.

Dichaetaria wightii is a slender perennial herb with narrow flat leaves.

References

  1. ^ "Dichaetaria Nees ex Steud." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2024-11-18.
  2. ^ Quattrocchi, Umberto (26 April 2006). CRC World Dictionary of Grasses: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology - 3 Volume Set. CRC Press. p. 620. ISBN 978-1-4200-0322-2.
  3. Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel ex Steudel, Ernst Gottlieb von 1854. Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1: 145-146 in Latin
  4. Tropicos, Dichaetaria Nees ex Steud.
  5. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  6. Gamble, James Sykes (1928). Flora of the Presidency of Madras: Ranunculaceae to Opiliaceae. West, Newman and Adlard. p. 1829.
  7. Bor, N. L. 1960. Grass. Burma, Ceylon, India & Pakistan iā€“767. Pergamon Press, Oxford
Taxon identifiers
Dichaetaria
Dichaetaria wightii


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