Diversity of Dimerias

World Distribution

Dimeriinae Hack. is a little-known subtribe, coming under the tribe Andropogoneae Dumort. of subfamily Panicoideae. The subtribe is considered as an enigmatic group of the family Poaceae and occupies a somewhat anomalous position in the subtribal classification. It is strictly a palaeotropical subtribe, largely distributed in Tropical Asia and chiefly confined to the Indian peninsula.

Usually, Dimerias have two tough racemes (inflorescence) of spikelets, from which the name of the subtribe is presumably derived.

Reference format:

Kiranraj, M.S.(2010 onwards). Diversity of dimerias. DIMERIA: An on-line Newsletter from GRASSNEST

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(Source: Kiranraj, M. S. 2008. Taxonomic revision of the subtribe Dimeriinae Hack. of Andropogoneae (Poaceae-Panicoideae) in Peninsular India. Ph.d. thesis. University of Calicut, India)