Poaceae - Wikipedia The Poaceae are the most economically important plant family, including staple foods from domesticated cereal crops such as maize, wheat, rice, oats, barley, and millet for people and as feed for meat-producing animals
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
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 - 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,
Poaceae - FNA The Poaceae or grass family includes approximately 700 genera and 11,000 species (Chen et al 2006) The two grass volumes in this series treat 10 subfamilies, 25 tribes, 236 genera, and 1373 species
Poaceae (Grass Family) - FSUS Poaceae Barnhart Common name: Grass Family Key to Poaceae A family of about 771 genera and 12,074 species, herbs (and some shrubs and trees), cosmopolitan Tribal classification largely follows FNA (2003a, 2007a), with some changes based on subsequent research, as for instance in the Chloridoideae (Peterson, Romaschenko, Johnson 2010a)
Poaceae - Oxford Reference The Poaceae includes the cereal grasses, including wheat, barley, oats, maize, rice, and millet, making it the most economically important of all plant families
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
List of Poaceae genera - Wikipedia Poaceae, also known as the true grasses, is the fourth largest plant family in the world with around 12,000 species and roughly 800 genera [1][2] They contain, among others, the cereal crop species and other plants of economic importance, such as the bamboos, and several important weeds
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