Chloridoideae
Chloridoideae is one of the largest subfamilies of grasses, with roughly 130 genera and 1,600 species, mainly found in arid tropical or subtropical grasslands. Within the PACMAD clade, their sister group are the Danthonioideae. 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).
11 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first
Cynodonteae
tribeCynodonteae
Eragrostideae
tribeEragrostideae
Zoysieae
tribeZoysieae
Triraphideae
tribeTriraphideae
Centropodieae
tribeCentropodieae
Indopoa
genusIndopoa
Silentvalleya
genusSilentvalleya
Myriostachya
genusMyriostachya
Pogonochloa
genusPogonochloa
Lepturopetium
genusLepturopetium
Pseudozoysia
genusPseudozoysia
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 975051.