Poaceae - Wikipedia Poaceae ( p oʊ ˈ eɪ s i iː,-ˌ aɪ poh-AY-see-e(y)e), also called Gramineae ( ɡ r ə ˈ m ɪ n i iː,-ˌ aɪ grə-MIN-ee-e(y)e), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses
Poaceae | Definition, Characteristics, Species, Classification, Uses . . . The Poaceae are the world’s single most important source of food They rank among the top five families of flowering plants in terms of the number of species, but they are clearly the most abundant and important family of the Earth’s flora
Poaceae - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics The Poaceae (grass family) is one of the most species-rich and economically important families in the Angiosperms The world's top four agricultural commodities with respect to productivity, that is sugar cane, maize, rice, and wheat, belong to this family
POACEAE - Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History POACEAE By Mark T Strong P Acevedo-Rodríguez A widely distributed family of primarily herbaceous or less often ligneous plants found in arctic, temperate, subtropical, and tropical regions, with ~750 genera and ~12,000 species worldwide Unarguably, the most important family of plants economically, from which cereals,
Chapter 13. Poaceae: The grass family - Ezcurra Ecological Research Poaceae: The grass family General physiognomy Grasslike plants with blade-like leaves and round, hollow stems; tiny, mostly bisexual flowers without petals and arranged in turn into spikelets; the fruits are dry, hard caryopses called “grains ” Vegetative morphology
Poaceae - Gardenology. org - Plant Encyclopedia and Gardening wiki The family Poaceae, in the Class Liliopsida of the flowering plants, is also known as Gramineae Plants of this family are usually called grasses There are about 600 genera and between 9,000-10,000 species of grasses (Kew Index of World Grass Species)
POACEAE - TheBackCountry Poaceae ( poʊˈeɪsiaɪ ) or Gramineae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants known as grasses, commonly referred to collectively as grass Poaceae includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and cultivated lawns and pasture
list of plants in the family Poaceae - Encyclopedia Britannica With more than 10,000 species, the grass family, Poaceae, is one of the largest families of flowering plants Its members are monocotyledons and feature leaves with parallel veins; the flowers are usually wind-pollinated
Family: Poaceae — grass family - Go Botany Family: Poaceae — grass family Grasses are annual, biennial, or perennial plants that are usually herbaceous but may be woody in some genera They may be terrestrial or aquatic The leaves may be evergreen or deciduous and are all basal or alternate, and usually much longer than wide
Poaceae: Characters, Distribution and Types - Biology Discussion Important Types of Poaceae: 1 Triticum aestivum (Fig 118 1): Habit: A cultivated annual crop plant Root: Adventitious Stem: Herbaceous, erect, cylindrical, fistular, with distinct nodes and internodes, unbranched, glabrous, a number of tillers Leaf: