IntroductionPoaceae is a peculiar family. It is one of the biggest and most ubiquitous families but it is very little used in homeopathy. On top of that they are not the kind of people who go to homeopaths very much, as they are generally quite healthy and attracted to normal things, and regular medicine. They are more straightforward, like farmers, living a healthy life in the countryside.
TaxonomyIn the
Apg classification Poales is member of the Superorder
Commelinoids. There
Poales contains many families, with
Poaceae as far the biggest.
Poaceae is the fifth-largest plant family after
Asteraceae,
Orchidaceae,
Fabaceae and
Rubiaceae.
In the fist version of the
Plant theory Poales were split in 3 parts:
Poaceae,
Cyperaceae and
Bromeliaceae and placed in subphase 2, 1 and 7 respectively. This was out of balance when one looks at the amount of genera and species. It was as if a totality was pressed in a few small corners.
In the new version of the
Plant theory Poales is placed in a Phase and split into 7 Families and Subfamilies.
Poaceae is split in 4 Subfamilies:
Panicoideae,
Bambusoideae,
Pooideae and
Chloridoideae. The early diverging Families of
Typhaceae and
Bromeliaceae are left in
Arecales in
Phase 4.
This change leaves some things intact. For instance the original
Subphase 2 is replaced by
Phase 2. The best known Subfamily,
Panicoideae, is in
Subphase 4 which resembles the original
Phase 4.
Subphases1.
Juncaceae2.
Cyperaceae3.
Restionaceae4.
Panicoideae5.
Bambusoideae6.
Pooideae7.
Chloridoideae