Centropodieae

Centropodieae is a tribe of grasses containing only two genera. It is the earliest-branching lineage in the subfamily Chloridoideae and contains its only genus with C₃ species, Ellisochloa, while all other species in the tribe and subfamily use the C₄ photosynthetic pathway.^[1]

Centropodieae
Examples of Centropodieae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Clade:	PACMAD clade
Subfamily:	Chloridoideae
Tribe:	Centropodieae P.M. Peterson, N.P. Barker & H.P. Linder (2011)
Genera
Centropodia Ellisochloa