Triraphideae

Triraphideae
Triraphis mollis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Clade: PACMAD clade
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Tribe: Triraphideae
P.M. Peterson (2010)
Genera

See text.

Synonyms

Triraphidinae Stapf (1917)

Triraphideae is a small tribe of tropical grasses, containing about 15 species in three or four genera. Like most of the subfamily Chloridoideae, species in the tribe use the C4 photosynthetic pathway.