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    The document summarizes key information about the Poaceae (grass) family, which includes over 668 genera and 11,000 species of grasses distributed worldwide. It is one of the most economically and ecologically important plant families, comprising 25% of Earth's vegetation. Grasses have small, enclosed flowers with reduced parts aggregated into spikelets. They are primarily herbs with narrow leaves and hollow or solid stems called culms. Many cultivated grains like wheat, rice, and maize come from economically vital grass species.

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    The document summarizes key information about the Poaceae (grass) family, which includes over 668 genera and 11,000 species of grasses distributed worldwide. It is one of the most economically and ecologically important plant families, comprising 25% of Earth's vegetation. Grasses have small, enclosed flowers with reduced parts aggregated into spikelets. They are primarily herbs with narrow leaves and hollow or solid stems called culms. Many cultivated grains like wheat, rice, and maize come from economically vital grass species.

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    The document summarizes key information about the Poaceae (grass) family, which includes over 668 genera and 11,000 species of grasses distributed worldwide. It is one of the most economically and ecologically important plant families, comprising 25% of Earth's vegetation. Grasses have small, enclosed flowers with reduced parts aggregated into spikelets. They are primarily herbs with narrow leaves and hollow or solid stems called culms. Many cultivated grains like wheat, rice, and maize come from economically vital grass species.

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    Poaceae Reduced Monocot Phylogeny of Required

    The Grass Family Families

    668 genera
    11,000 species

    Characteristic features:
    - Primarily herbs, often rhizomatous; “trees”
    in most bamboos; stems are called culms,
    hollow or solid
    - Flowers: small petals reduced to lodicules;
    typically 3 stamens, 3 carpels, but
    appearing as 2.
    - Each flower enclosed by two bracts (palea
    and lemma) = floret.
    - One to many florets are aggregated into
    spikelets, each with usually 2 empty bracts
    Distribution: (glumes) at the base.
    A truly cosmopolitan family, ranging from - Leaves with a ligule.
    polar circles to the Equator, and from - Fruit: a caryopsis.
    mountain tops to the sea. Often ecologically
    dominant, it is estimated to comprise 25% of
    Earth’s vegetation. References for further inquiry:
    - Soreng, R.J. & Davis, J. I. Phylogenetic and
    Economic Uses: character evolution in the grass family
    - Economically, this is the most important (Poaceae); simultaneous analysis of
    family of flowering plants. morphological and chloroplast restriction
    - It includes many cultivated plants (wheat, site character sets. Bot. Rev. 64:1-85
    rice, maize, etc.) and the domestication of (1998).
    these plants was a huge step forward in - Heywood, V.H., Brummitt, R.K., Culham, A.,
    the history of human civilization. & Seberg, O. Poaceae. Pp. 390-395. In:
    - Some species are used for structural Flowering Plant Families of the World. New
    purposes (bamboo). York, Firefly Books (2007).
    - Many species are also considered weeds.

    Prepared by: Mischa Olson


    Year updated: Spring 2013

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