''Ecdeiocolea'' is a genus of grass-like plants from Western Australia. It was first defined by von Mueller in 1874. ''Ecdeiocolea'' contains two species.Barbara G. Briggs. 2011. "''Ecdeiocolea rigens'', a new species of ''Ecdeiocolea'' (Poales) from Western Australia". ''Telopea'' 13(1-2):69-75. ISSN 0312-9764. The genus is a member of the small family

Ecdeiocoleaceae The Ecdeiocoleaceae comprise a family of flowering plants with two genera and three species. The botanical name has rarely been recognized by taxonomists. The APG II system, in 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, 1998), does recognize such a f ...

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Ecdeiocolea monostachya ''Ecdeiocolea monostachya'' is a species of grass-like plant in the family Ecdeiocoleaceae The Ecdeiocoleaceae comprise a family of flowering plants with two genera and three species. The botanical name has rarely been recognized by taxonomi ...

'' . ''Ecdeiocolea'' is most closely

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families

Joinvilleaceae The Joinvilleaceae are a family of flowering plants with a single genus including four species. The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, 1998) assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids in the monocots. The family ...

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Poaceae 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 an ...

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indicate that ''Ecdeiocolea'' is sister to Poaceae.Thomas J. Givnish, Mercedes Ames, Joel R. McNeal, Michael R. McKain, P. Roxanne Steele, Claude W. dePamphilis, Sean W. Graham, J. Chris Pires, Dennis W. Stevenson, Wendy B. Zomlefer, Barbara G. Briggs, Melvin R. Duvall, Michael J. Moore, J. Michael Heaney, Douglas E. Soltis,

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, Kevin Thiele, and James H. Leebens-Mack. 2010. "Assembling the Tree of the Monocotyledons: Plastome Sequence Phylogeny and Evolution of Poales". ''Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden'' 97(4):584-616.

References

Poales Angiosperms of Western Australia Poales of Australia {{WesternAustralia-plant-stub