Desmazeria

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

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|image = Desmazeria sicula (plant).jpg

|image_caption = Desmazeria sicula

|display_parents = 4

|taxon = Desmazeria

|authority = Dumort.

|type_species = Desmazeria sicula

|type_species_authority = (Jacq.) Dumort.

|synonyms_ref = [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=451369 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

|synonyms =

  • Demazeria Dumort., alternate spelling
  • Brizopyrum Link

}}

Desmazeria is a genus of Mediterranean plants in the grass family, related to Catapodium.Dumortier, Barthélemy Charles Joseph. 1822. Commentationes Botanicae 26[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00181.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]

The genus is named for John Baptiste Henri Joseph Desmazières, (1796-1862) a French merchant, amateur botanist, and editor of scientific journals.The Names of Plants, D. Gledhill, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. Rep. 1996. {{ISBN|0521366755}}.p.93

; Species[http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/floraspecie.php?genere=Desmazeria Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Desmazeria][http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Desmazeria The Plant List, search for Desmazeria]

; formerly included

see Castellia Catapodium Cutandia Halopyrum Sclerochloa Tribolium Wangenheimia

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Category:Pooideae

Category:Poaceae genera

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