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 tropical and subtropical
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 ...
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 classific ...
, with around 120 species in six genera.
Genera
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Coelachne
''Coelachne'' is a genus of Asian, African, and Australian plants in the grass family.
; Species
* '' Coelachne africana'' Pilg. - tropical Africa incl Madagascar
* '' Coelachne auquieri'' Ndab. - Rwanda
* '' Coelachne friesiorum'' C.E.Hubb. - ...
Hubbardia
''Hubbardia'' is a genus in the grass family that is endemic to India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and th ...
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Isachne
''Isachne'' is a widespread genus of tropical and subtropical plants in the grass family, found in Asia, Africa, Australia, the Americas, and various oceanic islands.Limnopoa''
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Sphaerocaryum
''Sphaerocaryum'' is a genus of Asian plants in the grass family. The only known species is ''Sphaerocaryum malaccense'', native to southern China, Indochina, the Indian Subcontinent, Peninsular Malaysia, Philippines, and Sumatra. (''Isachne pulc ...