Disakisperma

Disakisperma dubium

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Poales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Cladus: Commelinids Ordo: Poales

Familia: Poaceae
Subfamilia: Chloridoideae
Tribus: Cynodonteae
Subtribus: Eleusininae
Genus: Disakisperma
Species: D. dubium – D. eleusine – D. obtusiflorum – D. yemenicum

Name

Disakisperma Steud., Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 287 (1854)

• Type species: Disakisperma dubium (Kunth) P.M.Peterson & N.Snow, Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 109: 1327 (2012)

Synonyms

• Heterotypic
  • Ipnum Phil., Anales Univ. Chile 36: 211 (1870).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Africa & America 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, Maryland, 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, Missouri References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Steudel, E.G. von 1854. Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1: 287.

Additional references

• Peterson, P.M., Romaschenko, K., Snow, N. & Johnson, G. 2012. A molecular phylogeny and classification of Leptochloa (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Chlorideae) sensu lato and related genera. Annals of Botany 109: 1317–1329. DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcs112 Full text PDF Reference page. 
• Snow, N., Peterson, P.M. & Romaschenko, K. 2013. Systematics of Disakisperma (Poaceae, Chloridoideae, Chlorideae), PhytoKeys 26: 21–70.

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2013. Disakisperma in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2013 Nov. 10. Reference page. 
• Simon, B.K., Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T., Vorontsova, M., Brake, I., Healy, D. & Alfonso, Y. 2013. GrassWorld, Disakisperma. Published online. Accessed: 2013 Nov. 10.
• Tropicos.org 2013. Disakisperma. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 10 Nov. 2013.
• International Plant Names Index. 2013. Disakisperma. Published online. Accessed: 10 Nov. 2013.

Vernacular names

English: Green Sprangletop

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