Aristidoideae (Subfamily)

Overview

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Taxonomy

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The Subfamily Aristidoideae is a member of the Family Gramineae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Aristidoideae:

Domain: Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
  - Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
    - Phylum: Tracheophyta Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
      - Subphylum: Euphyllophytina (Auct.) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
        Infraphylum: Angiospermae Auct.
        Class: Magnoliopsida Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
        Subclass: Commelinidae Takhtajan, 1967
        Superorder: Juncanae Takhtajan, 1967
        Order: Poales Small, 1903
        Family: Gramineae A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons., nom. alt.
        Subfamily: Aristidoideae

The Subfamily Aristidoideae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Genus (3): Aristida · Sartidia · Stipagrostis
Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 782 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Subfamily Aristidoideae.

Genera

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Aristida

The three-awns are the grass genus Aristida, distinguished by having three awns (bristles) on each lemma of each floret. The genus includes about 300 species, found worldwide, often in arid warm regions. This genus is among those colloquially called "wiregrasses", "speargrasses" or "needlegrasses". [more]

Sartidia

Sartidia is a genus of grass in the Poaceae family. [more]

Stipagrostis

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At least 76 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Stipagrostis.

More info about the Genus Stipagrostis may be found here.

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