Kingdom Plantae Family Poaceae Higher classification Grasses | Order Poales Scientific name Desmostachya Rank Genus | |
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Similar Desmostachya bipinnata, Grasses, Juncus rigidus, Paspalidium | ||
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Desmostachya is a genus of grass in the Poaceae family.
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Taxonomy
The genus Desmostachya was originally published as Eragrostis sect. Desmostachya in The Flora of British India 7: 324. 1897. Somehow two prominent botanists, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911) and Otto Stapf (1857–1933), were originally each credited separately as the naming authority for the taxon (the type specimen for this section of Eragrostis being Eragrostis cynosuroides (Retz.) P.Beauv., itself based on a previous species taxon, Poa cynosuroides Retz.). It is generally accepted that Eragrostis sect. Desmostachya Hook.f. is the correct name for the taxon. However, E. sect. Desmostachya Stapf is accepted as the basionym for the genus name Desmostachya. A year after it was published as a section of Eragrostis, Desmostachya was published as a genus in its own right in Flora Capensis 7: 316. 1898. Two species are recognized: