Chloridoideae is one of the largest subfamilies of grasses, with roughly 150 genera and 1,600 species, mainly found in arid tropical or subtropical grasslands. Within the PACMAD clade, their sister group is the Danthonioideae.[1] The subfamily includes widespread weeds such as Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon) or goosegrass (Eleusine indica), but also millet species grown in some tropical regions, namely finger millet (Eleusine coracana) and teff (Eragrostis tef).
With the exception of some species in Ellisochloa and Eleusine indica, most of the subfamily's species use the C4 photosynthetic pathway. The first evolutionary transition from C3 to C4 photosynthesis in the grasses probably occurred in this subfamily, around 32 to 25 million years ago in the Oligocene.[2]
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Chloridoideae is one of the largest subfamilies of grasses, with roughly 150 genera and 1,600 species, mainly found in arid tropical or subtropical grasslands...
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first initials of the included subfamilies Panicoideae, Arundinoideae, Chloridoideae, Micrairoideae, Aristidoideae, and Danthonioideae. It has no defined...
Columbus, J.T.; Friar, E.A. (2007). "Dicliny in Bouteloua (Poaceae: Chloridoideae): Implications for the evolution of dioecy". Aliso: A Journal of Systematic...
including Aristida Arundinoideae, including giant reed and common reed Chloridoideae, including the lovegrasses (Eragrostis, about 350 species, including...
Cynodon dactylon, commonly known as Bermuda grass, and also known as couch grass in Australia and New Zealand, is a grass found worldwide. It is native...
is a grass. Aristida – 288 C4 species Stipagrostis – 56 C4 species Chloridoideae (without Centropodieae) – 1596 C4 species Centropodia – 4 C4 species...
Commonly cultivated millets are: Eragrostideae tribe in the subfamily Chloridoideae: Eleusine coracana: Finger millet Eragrostis tef: Teff; often not considered...
p. 44. Peterson, P. M. (2000). "Systematics of the Muhlenbergiinae (Chloridoideae: Eragrostideae)". In Jacobs, S. W. L.; Everett, J. (eds.). Grasses:...
Panicoideae are sister to a clade made of the four subfamilies Arundinoideae, Chloridoideae, Danthonioideae, and Micrairoideae. A modern phylogenetic classification...
phylogeny and new subgeneric classification of Sporobolus (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Sporobolinae), Taxon 63: 1212-1243. Bortolus, A, P Adam, JB Adams,...
Eleusine indica, the Indian goosegrass, yard-grass, goosegrass, wiregrass, or crowfootgrass, is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. It is a small...
Zoysieae is a tribe of grasses in subfamily Chloridoideae, with around 250 species in four genera. All species use the C4 photosynthetic pathway. The...
Cynodonteae is a large tribe of grasses in the subfamily Chloridoideae, with over 800 species. Like most of the subfamily, species in the tribe are adapted...
phylogeny and new subgeneric classification of Sporobolus (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Sporobolinae), Taxon 63: 1212-1243. Lonard, Robert I.; Judd, Frank...
Johnson, John L. (1997). "Systematics of Eleusine Gaertn. (Poaceae: Chloridoideae): Chloroplast DNA and Total Evidence". Annals of the Missouri Botanical...
Nelson, M. E.; Zakrzewski, R. J. (1986). "A Fossil Grass (Gramineae: Chloridoideae) from the Miocene with Kranz Anatomy". Science. 233 (4766): 876–878...
use the C3 photosynthetic pathway. Its sister group is the subfamily Chloridoideae. There are 19 genera, 18 of which are placed in tribe Danthonieae, while...
known as southern canegrass, is a species of grass, in the subfamily Chloridoideae of the family Poaceae, that is endemic to Australia. It has erected...
about 15 species in three or four genera. Like most of the subfamily Chloridoideae, species in the tribe use the C4 photosynthetic pathway. Three genera...
2012. A molecular phylogeny and classification of Leptochloa (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Chlorideae) sensu lato and related genera. Annals of Botany, n.s. Oxford...
Bouteloua. In Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae): II. Subfamily Chloridoideae. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 41: 20–33 Gould...
correct identity and distribution of Dactyloctenium scindicum (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Cynodonteae: Dactylocteniinae) in the Indo-Gangetic plains and Peninsular...
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