Poaceae - Taxonomy

Taxonomy

The most recent classification of the grass family recognizes 12 subfamilies:

• Anomochlooideae, a small lineage of broad-leaved grasses that includes two genera (Anomochloa, Streptochaeta)
• Pharoideae, a small lineage of grasses of three genera, including Pharus and Leptaspis
• Puelioideae, a small lineage of the African genus Puelia
• Pooideae, including wheat, barley, oats, brome-grass (Bromus), reed-grasses (Calamagrostis) and many lawn and pasture grasses
• Bambusoideae, including bamboo
• Ehrhartoideae, including rice and wild rice
• Aristidoideae, including
• Arundinoideae, including giant reed and common reed
• Chloridoideae, including the lovegrasses (Eragrostis, about 350 species, including teff), dropseeds (Sporobolus, some 160 species), finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.), and the muhly grasses (Muhlenbergia, about 175 species)
• Panicoideae, including panic grass, maize, sorghum, sugarcane, most millets, fonio, and bluestem grasses
• Micrairoideae
• Danthonioideae, including pampas grass

Depending on the classification followed, the family includes around 668 genera.