Arundinarieae is a
tribe
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of
bamboo
Bamboos are a diverse group of mostly evergreen perennial plant, perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily (biology), subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family, in th ...
in the grass
family
Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...
(
Poaceae
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 cultivate ...
) containing a single subtribe, Arundinariinae, and 31 genera.
These woody bamboos occur in areas with warm temperate climates in southeastern
North America
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,
Subsaharan Africa
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,
South Asia
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and
East Asia
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. The tribe forms a lineage independent of the tropical woody bamboos (
Bambuseae
The Bambuseae are the most diverse tribe of bamboos in the grass family ( Poaceae). They consist of woody species from tropical regions, including some giant bamboos. Their sister group are the small herbaceous bamboos from the tropics in tr ...
) and the tropical herbaceous bamboos (
Olyreae
Olyreae is a tribe of grasses in the bamboo subfamily ( Bambusoideae). Unlike the other two bamboo tribes, Olyreae are herbaceous and do not have a woody stem. Their sister group are the tropical woody bamboos ( Bambuseae).
Olyreae grow in the u ...
).
Genera
References
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Bambusoideae
Poaceae tribes