Centotheceae is a small tribe 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 ...
with six species in two genera, distributed in Africa and Asia. It belongs to a basal
lineage
Lineage may refer to:
Science
* Lineage (anthropology), a group that can demonstrate its common descent from an apical ancestor or a direct line of descent from an ancestor
* Lineage (evolution), a temporal sequence of individuals, populat ...
in subfamily
Panicoideae, sometimes referred to as "centothecoid clade".
[ ] Unlike many other clades in the subfamily Panicoideae, they use the
C3 photosynthetic pathway.
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References
Panicoideae
Poaceae tribes
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