Cyperochloeae is a small
tribe
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of
grasses
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 cultivated in ...
in the
Panicoideae
Panicoideae is the second-largest subfamily of the grasses with over 3,500 species, mainly distributed in warm temperate and tropical regions. It comprises some important agricultural crops, including sugarcane, maize (or corn), sorghum, and s ...
subfamily
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, found in
Australia
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. It belongs to a basal lineage within the subfamily and has only two species in two
monotypic
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genera, ''
Cyperochloa'' and ''
Spartochloa''.
They use the
C3 photosynthetic pathway.
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Panicoideae
Poaceae tribes
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