Desmazeria
{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|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]
- Desmazeria lorentii H.Scholz - Tunisia, Libya
- Desmazeria philistaea (Boiss.) H.Scholz - Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
- Desmazeria pignattii Brullo & Pavone - Sicily
- Desmazeria sicula (Jacq.) Dumort. - Sicily, Sardinia, Calabria, Spain, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia
see Castellia Catapodium Cutandia Halopyrum Sclerochloa Tribolium Wangenheimia
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- Desmazeria acutiflora - Tribolium acutiflorum
- Desmazeria alternans - Tribolium alternans
- Desmazeria balearica - Catapodium marinum
- Desmazeria capensis - Tribolium uniolae
- Desmazeria castellana - Wangenheimia lima
- Desmazeria composita - Tribolium obtusifolium
- Desmazeria compressa - Sclerochloa woronowii
- Desmazeria loliacea - Catapodium marinum
- Desmazeria marina - Catapodium marinum
- Desmazeria marina subsp. pauciflora - Wangenheimia lima
- Desmazeria oblitera - Tribolium obliterum
- Desmazeria pauciflora - Wangenheimia lima
- Desmazeria rigescens - Cutandia rigescens
- Desmazeria rigida - Catapodium rigidum
- Desmazeria triticea - Catapodium marinum
- Desmazeria tuberculosa (Moris) Bonnier 1896 not Trab. 1884 - Castellia tuberculosa
- Desmazeria uniolae - Tribolium uniolae
- Desmazeria unioloides - Halopyrum mucronatum
- Desmazeria woronowii - Sclerochloa woronowii
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