Andropogoneae
| Andropogoneae | |
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| Andropogon scoparius | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| (unranked): | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
| Supertribe: | Andropogonodae |
| Tribe: | Andropogoneae (1824) Dumort. |
| Subtribes | |
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12 subtribes, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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The Andropogoneae, sometimes called the sorghum tribe, are a large tribe of grasses (family Poaceae) with roughly 1,200 species in 90 genera, mainly distributed in tropical and subtropical areas. They include such important crops as maize (corn), sugarcane, and sorghum.[2] All species in this tribe use C4 carbon fixation, which makes them competitive under warm, high-light conditions.[1]
Andropogoneae is classified in supertribe Andropogonodae together with its sister group Arundinelleae. Subdivisions include 12 subtribes, but the position of several genera within them is still unresolved (incertae sedis). Hybridisation was probably important in the evolution of the Andropogoneae, and the tribe's systematics is still not completely resolved.[1]
Subtribes and genera
- incertae sedis
- Apluda
- Chrysopogon (syn. Vetiveria)
- Eriochrysis (syn. Leptosaccharum)
- Imperata
- Phacelurus (syn. Thyrsia)
- Pogonatherum
- Spathia
- Spodiopogon (syn. Eccoilopus)
- Thelepogon
- Tripidium
- Arthraxoninae
- Tripsacinae
- Chionachninae
- Coicinae
- Rottboelliinae
- Chasmopodium
- Elionurus
- Eremochloa
- Glyphochloa
- Hemarthria
- Heteropholis
- Lasiurus
- Loxodera
- Manisuris
- Mnesithea (syn. Coelorachis, Hackelochloa)
- Ophiuros
- Oxyrhachis
- Ratzeburgia
- Rhytachne
- Rottboellia
- Thaumastochloa
- Urelytrum
- Vossia
- Ischaeminae
- Dimeriinae
- Germainiinae
- Sorghinae
- Asthenochloa
- Euclasta (syn. Indochloa)
- Hemisorghum
- Pseudodichanthium
- Sorghastrum
- Sorghum (syn. – Cleistachne, Sarga, Vacoparis)
- Saccharinae
- Erianthus
- Eulalia
- Eulaliopsis
- Homozeugos
- Lophopogon
- Microstegium (syn. Ischnochloa)
- Miscanthus (syn. Diadranthus, Rubomons, Triarrhena)
- Miscanthidium
- Narenga
- Polliniopsis
- Polytrias
- Pseudopogonatherum
- Pseudosorghum
- Saccharum (sugarcane)
- Sclerostachya
- Veldkampia
- Andropogoninae
- Anthistiriinae
References
- 1 2 3 Soreng, Robert J.; Peterson, Paul M.; Romschenko, Konstantin; Davidse, Gerrit; Zuloaga, Fernando O.; Judziewicz, Emmet J.; Filgueiras, Tarciso S.; Davis, Jerrold I.; Morrone, Osvaldo (2015). "A worldwide phylogenetic classification of the Poaceae (Gramineae)". Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 53 (2): 117–137. doi:10.1111/jse.12150. ISSN 1674-4918.
- ↑ Also called "kaoliang": "Shensi", in The Columbia-Viking Encyclopedia (1953), New York: Viking. Another spelling is "gaoliang."