Pharoideae

Pharoideae

Pharoideae

Subfamily of plants

Pharoideae is a subfamily of the true grass family Poaceae, containing the single tribe Phareae with the two genera Leptaspis and Pharus. Its members grow on the shaded floors of tropical to warm temperate forests.

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This subfamily is one of the earliest-diverging grass lineages, older than the big BOP and PACMAD clades:[1]

Poaceae

References

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    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. PMID 22115274. Open access icon


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