Genus of grasses
Spikelet of Dimeria raizadae, an endemic species of Kerala, India
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]
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]
Species[ 9] [ 7] [ 10] [ 6]
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
^ 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 .