Isachneae is a
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide use of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. The definition is contested, in part due to conflict ...
of tropical and subtropical
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 ...
in subfamily
Micrairoideae
Micrairoideae is a subfamily of the grass family Poaceae, distributed in tropical and subtropical regions. Within the PACMAD clade, it is sister to subfamily Arundinoideae.
It includes roughly 190 species in nine genera. A phylogenetic classifi ...
, with around 120 species in six genera.
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Genera
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Coelachne''
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Heteranthoecia''
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Hubbardia''
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Isachne''
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Limnopoa''
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Sphaerocaryum''
References
Micrairoideae
Poaceae tribes
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