Zeugiteae

Zeugiteae
Zeugites pringlei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
(unranked):	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Panicoideae
Tribe:	Zeugiteae Sánchez-Ken & L.G. Clark (2010)
Genera
Five genera, see text
Synonyms[1]
Zeugitinae Caro (1982)

Zeugiteae is a tribe of the Panicoideae subfamily in the grasses (Poaceae), native to Africa, Asia, Australasia, South and Central America. There are 18 species in five genera. The tribe belongs to a basal lineage within the subfamily.^[1] Species in this tribe use the C₃ photosynthetic pathway.^[2]

Genera

• Chevalierella
• Lophatherum
• Orthoclada
• Pohlidium
• Zeugites (syn. Calderonella)

References

1. 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.
2. Osborne, Colin P.; Salomaa, Anna; Kluyver, Thomas A.; Visser, Vernon; Kellogg, Elizabeth A.; Morrone, Osvaldo; Vorontsova, Maria S.; Clayton, W. Derek; Simpson, David A. (2014). "A global database of C₄ photosynthesis in grasses". New Phytologist 204 (3): 441–446. doi:10.1111/nph.12942. ISSN 0028-646X.

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