Centotheceae is a small tribe of
grasses
Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in ...
with six species in two genera, distributed in Africa and Asia. It belongs to a basal
lineage in subfamily
Panicoideae
Panicoideae is the second-largest subfamily of the grasses with over 3,500 species, mainly distributed in warm temperate and tropical regions. It comprises some important agricultural crops, including sugarcane, maize (or corn), sorghum, and s ...
, sometimes referred to as "centothecoid clade".
[ ] Unlike many other clades in the subfamily Panicoideae, they use the
C3 photosynthetic pathway.
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References
Panicoideae
Poaceae tribes
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