Andropogoneae

Andropogoneae
	Andropogon scoparius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
(unranked):	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Panicoideae
Supertribe:	Andropogonodae
Tribe:	Andropogoneae (1824); Dumort.
Subtribes
	12 subtribes, see text
Synonyms
	Sacchareae Dumort. (1824); Coiceae Nakai (1943); Euchlaeneae Nakai (1943); Imperateae Godr. & Gren. (1855); Maydeae Dumort. (1824, nom. illeg.); Ophiureae Dumort. (1824); Rottboellieae Kunth (1829); Sacchareae Rchb. ex Horan. (1847, as Saccharinae); Tripsaceae C.E. Hubb. ex Nakai (1943); Zeeae Rchb. (1828, unranked); Zeeae Nakai (1943);

The Andropogoneae, sometimes called the sorghum tribe, are a large tribe of grasses (family Poaceae) with roughly 1,200 species in 90 genera, mainly distributed in tropical and subtropical areas. They include such important crops as maize (corn), sugarcane, and sorghum.^[2] All species in this tribe use C₄ carbon fixation, which makes them competitive under warm, high-light conditions.^[1]

Andropogoneae is classified in supertribe Andropogonodae together with its sister group Arundinelleae. Subdivisions include 12 subtribes, but the position of several genera within them is still unresolved (incertae sedis). Hybridisation was probably important in the evolution of the Andropogoneae, and the tribe's systematics is still not completely resolved.^[1]

Subtribes and genera

incertae sedis

Arthraxoninae

Arthraxon

Tripsacinae

Tripsacum
Zea (maize or corn and teosinte)

Chionachninae

Coicinae

Coix

Rottboelliinae

Chasmopodium
Elionurus
Eremochloa
Glyphochloa
Hemarthria
Heteropholis
Lasiurus
Loxodera
Manisuris
Mnesithea (syn. Coelorachis, Hackelochloa)
Ophiuros
Oxyrhachis
Ratzeburgia
Rhytachne
Rottboellia
Thaumastochloa
Urelytrum
Vossia

Ischaeminae

Dimeriinae

Dimeria

Germainiinae

Sorghinae

Asthenochloa
Euclasta (syn. Indochloa)
Hemisorghum
Pseudodichanthium
Sorghastrum
Sorghum (syn. – Cleistachne, Sarga, Vacoparis)

Saccharinae

Erianthus
Eulalia
Eulaliopsis
Homozeugos
Lophopogon
Microstegium (syn. Ischnochloa)
Miscanthus (syn. Diadranthus, Rubomons, Triarrhena)
Miscanthidium
Narenga
Polliniopsis
Polytrias
Pseudopogonatherum
Pseudosorghum
Saccharum (sugarcane)
Sclerostachya
Veldkampia

Andropogoninae

Anthistiriinae

References

^ ^a ^b ^c 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.
^ Also called "kaoliang": "Shensi", in The Columbia-Viking Encyclopedia (1953), New York: Viking. Another spelling is "gaoliang."

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[SorengPeterson2015-1] 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] Also called "kaoliang": "Shensi", in The Columbia-Viking Encyclopedia (1953), New York: Viking. Another spelling is "gaoliang."

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