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Tribe of grasses From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Centotheceae is a small tribe of grasses with six species in two genera, distributed in Africa and Asia. It belongs to a basal lineage in subfamily Panicoideae, sometimes referred to as "centothecoid clade".[1] Unlike many other clades in the subfamily Panicoideae, they use the C3 photosynthetic pathway.[2]
Centotheceae | |
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Centotheca lappacea | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Poaceae |
Clade: | PACMAD clade |
Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
Tribe: | Centotheceae Ridl. (1907) |
Genera | |
Synonyms[1] | |
subtribe Centothecinae Benth. (1881) |
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