Cyperochloeae

Cyperochloeae
Spartochloa scirpoidea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Clade: PACMAD clade
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Tribe:
L. Watson & Dallwitz ex Sánchez-Ken & L.G. Clark (2010)
Genera
Synonyms

Cyperochloeae L. Watson & Dallwitz (1992, nom. nud.)

Cyperochloeae is a small tribe of grasses in the Panicoideae subfamily, found in Australia. It belongs to a basal lineage within the subfamily and has only two species in two monotypic genera, Cyperochloa and Spartochloa.[1] They use the C3 photosynthetic pathway.[2]

References

  1. ^ Soreng, Robert J.; Peterson, Paul M.; Romaschenko, Konstantin; Davidse, Gerrit; Teisher, Jordan K.; Clark, Lynn G.; Barberá, Patricia; Gillespie, Lynn J.; Zuloaga, Fernando O. (2017). "A worldwide phylogenetic classification of the Poaceae (Gramineae) II: An update and a comparison of two 2015 classifications". Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 55 (4): 259–290. doi:10.1111/jse.12262. hdl:10261/240149. ISSN 1674-4918.
  2. ^ Osborne, Colin P.; Salomaa, Anna; Kluyver, Thomas A.; Visser, Vernon; Kellogg, Elizabeth A.; Morrone, Osvaldo; Vorontsova, Maria S.; Clayton, W. Derek; Simpson, David A. (2014). "A global database of C4 photosynthesis in grasses". New Phytologist. 204 (3): 441–446. doi:10.1111/nph.12942. hdl:10019.1/122719. ISSN 0028-646X. Open access icon


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