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Authority - Juss. | Total Number of genera - 668 |
Gymnosperm or Angiosperm? - Angiosperm | Total Number of species - 10000 |
Plant forms - Herb, shrub or tree-like | |
World Distribution - World Wide, esp. tropical & N. temperate sub-arid | |
Comments - Same as Poaceae. Woody or tree-like. Plants of this family are usually called grasses |
1 - Aristida. 2 - Arundinaria. 3 - Arundo. 4 - Bambusa. 5 - Chusquea. 6 - Lasciacis. 7 - Olyra. 8 - Paspalum. 9 - Phyllostachys. 10 - Sinocalmus. |