Dimeria is a genus of Asian, Australian, Madagascan, and Pacific Island plants in the grass family, mostly distributed in Peninsular India[2][3][4][5][6]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
| Supertribe: | Andropogonodae |
| Tribe: | Andropogoneae |
| Subtribe: | Ischaeminae |
| Genus: | Dimeria R.Br. |
| Type species | |
| Dimeria acinaciformis | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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The genus is characterised by its tough raceme rachis bearing strongly compressed single spikelets. It is believed that peninsular India, which has 42 taxa (including 7 infra-specific taxa) and 23 endemic species, is the centre of its distribution.[7][8]
- Dimeria acinaciformis - Queensland, Northern Territory
- Dimeria acutipes - Tamil Nadu
- Dimeria agasthyamalayana - Kerala
- Dimeria anadamanica - Andaman Island
- Dimeria aristata - Sri Lanka
- Dimeria avenacea - Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, Myanmar
- Dimeria balakrishnaniana - Tamil Nadu
- Dimeria ballardii - Sri Lanka
- Dimeria bialata - Tamil Nadu
- Dimeria chloridiformis - Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, New Guinea, Australia, Santa Cruz Islands, Micronesia
- Dimeria connivens - Bihar, Odisha
- Dimeria copeana - Kerala
- Dimeria deccanensis - Tamil Nadu
- Dimeria dipteros - New Guinea
- Dimeria falcata - China, Indochina
- Dimeria fischeri - Tamil Nadu
- Dimeria fuscescens - Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar, Thailand
- Dimeria glabriuscula - New Guinea
- Dimeria gracilis - India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam
- Dimeria guangxiensis - Guangxi
- Dimeria hohenackeri - India, Myanmar
- Dimeria jainii - India
- Dimeria josephi - Kerala
- Dimeria kalavoorensis - Kerala
- Dimeria kaleri - Kerala
- Dimeria kanjirapallilana - Kerala
- Dimeria keenanii - Myanmar
- Dimeria kerrii - Thailand
- Dimeria kurzii - Indochina
- Dimeria kurumthotticalana - Kerala
- Dimeria lawsonii - India
- Dimeria lehmannii - India, Sri Lanka
- Dimeria leptorhachis - Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Pen. Malaysia
- Dimeria madagascariensis - Madagascar
- Dimeria mahendragiriensis - Odisha
- Dimeria manongarivensis - Madagascar
- Dimeria monostachya - New Guinea
- Dimeria mooneyi - Odisha
- Dimeria namboodiriana - Kerala
- Dimeria neglecta - Primorye
- Dimeria orissae - Odisha
- Dimeria ornithopoda - Asia (from Oman to Japan + Philippines), New Guinea, Australia, Micronesia
- Dimeria paniculata - Palau
- Dimeria perrieri - Madagascar
- Dimeria pubescens - India, Sri Lanka, Thailand
- Dimeria raizadae - Kerala
- Dimeria raviana - Kerala
- Dimeria sinensis - Thailand, southern China
- Dimeria solitaria - Guangdong
- Dimeria stapfiana - Maharashtra
- Dimeria thwaitesii - Sri Lanka, Indochina
- Dimeria veldkampii - Goa
- Dimeria woodrowii - Maharashtra
- formerly included[1]
see Arthraxon, Nanooravia
- Dimeria scrobiculata - Arthraxon hispidus
- Dimeria santapaui - Nanooravia santapaui
- Dimeria keralae - Nanooravia santapaui
See Also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Brown, Robert 1810. Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae 204
- ^ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
- ^ Atlas of Living Australia, Dimeria R.Br.
- ^ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 614 觿茅属 xi mao shu Dimeria R. Brown, Prodr. 204. 1810.
- ^ a b Kiranraj, M S (2008). "Taxonomic revision of the subtribe Dimeriinae Hack of Andropogoneae Panicoideae Poaceae in Peninsular India". Shodhganga : a reservoir of Indian theses @ INFLIBNET.
- ^ a b Raj, M. S. Kiran; Sivadasan, M.; Veldkamp, J. F.; Alfarhan, A. H.; Tamimi, A. S. M. Amal (2015-06-25). "A revised infrageneric classification of Dimeria R. Br. (Poaceae: Andropogoneae)". Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy. 22 (1): 47–54. doi:10.3329/bjpt.v22i1.23866. ISSN 2224-7297.
- ^ Teerawatananon, Atchara; Boontia, Veeraya; Chantarasuwan, Bhanumas; Hodkinson, Trevor R.; Sungkaew, Sarawood (2014-11-27). "A taxonomic revision of the genus Dimeria (Poaceae: Panicoideae) in Thailand". Phytotaxa. 186 (3): 137. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.186.3.2. ISSN 1179-3163.
- ^ The Plant List search for Dimeria
- ^ "Dimeria R.Br. | COL". www.catalogueoflife.org. Retrieved 2024-05-26.
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