Author:
Qjure
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-633.20.00
Poaceae
English: grasses.
Dutch: grassen.
Culture: grass eaters are herd animals.
Taxonomy: ± 780 genera; ± 12000 species.
Content: Calcium; Chromium; Silicon; oxalates; melatonin; gluten.
Taxonomy
In the Apg3 classification Poaceae is a member of Poales.
In the Plant theory Poaceae is split into 4 Subfamilies and placed in with other families in Poales, Phase 2. So Poaceae is a Superfamily, or a Suborder, depending on one’s point of view.
Subfamilies
Anomochlooideae: broad-leaved; genera Anomochloa, Streptochaeta.
Pharoideae: genera, including Pharus and Leptaspis.
Puelioideae: African genus Puelia.
Pooideae: wheat, barley, oats, brome-grass Bromus, reed-grasses Calamagrostis, many lawn and pasture grasses.
Bambusoideae: including bamboo.
Ehrhartoideae: including rice and wild rice.
Aristidoideae: including Aristida.
Arundinoideae: including giant reed and common reed.
Chloridoideae: including the lovegrasses Eragrostis, dropseeds Sporobolus, finger millet Eleusine coracana, muhly grasses Muhlenbergia.
Panicoideae, including panic grass, maize, sorghum, sugarcane, most millets, fonio, and bluestem grasses.
Micrairoideae.
Danthonioideae, including pampas grass.