Centropodieae is a
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English language, English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in p ...
of
grasses
Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns and ...
containing only two genera. It is the earliest-branching lineage in the subfamily
Chloridoideae
Chloridoideae is one of the largest subfamilies of grasses, with roughly 150 genera and 1,600 species, mainly found in arid tropical or subtropical grasslands. Within the PACMAD clade, their sister group are the Danthonioideae. The subfamily inc ...
and contains its only genus with
C3 species, ''
Ellisochloa
''Ellisochloa'' is a genus of Namibian and South African plants in the Poaceae, grass family.
; Species
* ''Ellisochloa papposa'' (Nees) P.M.Peterson & N.P.Barker - Cape Province
* ''Ellisochloa rangei'' (Pilg.) P.M.Peterson & N.P.Barker - Namib ...
'', while all other species in the tribe and subfamily use the
C4 photosynthetic pathway.
References
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Chloridoideae
Poaceae tribes
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