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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 .
Poaceae: grass family; Dendrocalamus: giant clumping bamboos; Dendrocalamus asper: giant bamboo; edible bamboo Poaceae (grass family) Polygonaceae: knotweed family; Coccoloba: coccoloba trees; Coccoloba diversifolia: pigeon plum Polygonaceae (knotweed family) Coccoloba uvifera: seagrape Polygonaceae (knotweed family) Proteaceae: protea family
Poaceae at The Plant List; Learn about grasses at The Story of the Poaceae "Grasses" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. XI (9th ed.). 1880. pp. 53–60. Gramineae Archived 2007-01-03 at the Wayback Machine at The Families of Flowering Plants (DELTA) Archived 2007-01-03 at the Wayback Machine; Poaceae at the Angiosperm Phylogeny Website
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Three goals of plant taxonomy are the identification, classification and description of plants. The distinction between these three goals is important and often overlooked. Plant identification is a determination of the identity of an unknown plant by comparison with previously collected specimens or with the aid of books or identification manuals.
Maize (Zea mays, Poaceae) is the most widely cultivated C 4 plant.[1]In botany, C 4 carbon fixation is one of three known methods of photosynthesis used by plants. C 4 plants increase their photosynthetic efficiency by reducing or suppressing photorespiration, which mainly occurs under low atmospheric CO 2 concentration, high light, high temperature, drought, and salinity.
The Pooideae are the largest subfamily of the grass family Poaceae, with about 4,000 species in 15 tribes and roughly 200 genera.They include some major cereals such as wheat, barley, oat, rye and many lawn and pasture grasses.
"Bluegrass": The seed pods go from green to purplish blue to brown. During the purplish blue phase the seed stems have a navy-blue coating. Poa trivialis (rough meadow-grass), showing the ligule structure