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Subfamily of plants
Micrairoideae is a
subfamily of the grass
family
Poaceae , distributed in tropical and subtropical regions.
[1] Within the
PACMAD clade , it is
sister to subfamily
Arundinoideae .
[2]
It includes roughly 190 species in nine genera. A phylogenetic classification of the grasses recognises four main lineages, classified as
tribes . Only species in tribe Eriachneae (genera
Eriachne and
Pheidochloa ) have evolved the
C4 photosynthetic pathway .
[3]
Phylogeny
Relationships of tribes in the Micrairoideae according to a 2017 phylogenetic classification,
[4] also showing the Arundinoideae as sister group:
References
^ Sánchen-Ken, J. Gabriel; Clark, Lynn G.; Kellogg, Elizabeth A.; Kay, Elma E. (2007). "Reinstatement and emendation of subfamily Micrairoideae (Poaceae)". Systematic Botany . 32 (1): 71–80.
doi :
10.1600/036364407780360102 .
ISSN
0363-6445 .
S2CID
85727105 .
^ Grass Phylogeny Working Group II (2012). "New grass phylogeny resolves deep evolutionary relationships and discovers C4 origins". New Phytologist . 193 (2): 304–312.
doi :
10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03972.x .
hdl :
2262/73271 .
ISSN
0028-646X .
PMID
22115274 .
^ Soreng, Robert J.; Peterson, Paul M.; Romschenko, Konstantin; Davidse, Gerrit; Zuloaga, Fernando O.; Judziewicz, Emmet J.; Filgueiras, Tarciso S.; Davis, Jerrold I.; Morrone, Osvaldo (2015). "A worldwide phylogenetic classification of the Poaceae (Gramineae)". Journal of Systematics and Evolution . 53 (2): 117–137.
doi :
10.1111/jse.12150 .
hdl :
11336/25248 .
ISSN
1674-4918 .
S2CID
84052108 .
^ 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 .
Morphology Ecology Subfamilies
Uses
Food Construction Landscaping Other