Graminid clade
Not to be confused with graminoid, a morphological category of plants with grass-like appearance.
| Graminid clade Temporal range: Late Cretaceous–Recent[1] | |
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| Common wheat (Triticum aestivum) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Clade: | Graminid clade |
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| Diversity | |
| ca. 12,000 species | |
The graminid clade is a clade of plants in the order Poales uniting four families, of which the grasses (Poaceae) are the most species-rich. Its sister group is the restiid clade.[1]
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