Cynodonteae

Cynodonteae is a large tribe of grasses in the subfamily Chloridoideae, with over 800 species.^[1][2][3][4]

Cynodonteae
Goosegrass (Eleusine indica)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Clade:	PACMAD clade
Subfamily:	Chloridoideae
Tribe:	Cynodonteae Dumort. (1824)
Genera
94 genera, see text
Synonyms[1]
Aeluropodieae Nevski ex Bor (1965) Chlorideae Rchb. (1828, unranked) Chlorideae Trin. (1824, nom. illeg.) Hubbardochloinae Auquier (1980) Jouveae Pilg. (1956) Leptureae Dumort. (1824, as Lepiureae) Monermeae C.E. Hubb. (1948, nom. inval.) Nazieae Hitchc. (1920, nom. illeg.) Pappophoreae Kunth (1829) Perotideae C.E. Hubb. (1960) Pommereulleae Bor (1960) Trageae Hitchc. (1927) Triodieae S.W.L. Jacobs (2004)

Like most of the subfamily, species in the tribe are adapted to warm, arid climates and use the C₄ photosynthetic pathway. Some species, such as Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon) or goosegrass (Eleusine indica), are widespread weeds, introduced in many countries.

Most of the 94 genera are classified in one of 21 subtribes, but some are still unplaced (incertae sedis) within the tribe.^[1]

incertae sedis

• Allolepis
• Jouvea
• Kalinia
• Kampochloa
• Lepturidium
• Sclerodactylon
• Sohnsia
• Vietnamochloa

Aeluropodinae

• Aeluropus
• Odyssea

Dactylocteniinae

• Acrachne
• Brachychloa
• Dactyloctenium
• Neobouteloua

Eleusininae

• Afrotrichloris
• Apochiton
• Astrebla
• Austrochloris
• Chloris (syn. Lintonia, Ochthochloa)
• Chrysochloa
• Coelachyrum (syn. Coelachyropsis)
• Cynodon (syn. Brachyachne)
• Daknopholis
• Dinebra (syn. Drake-Brockmania, Heterocarpha, Oxydenia)
• Diplachne
• Disakisperma (syn. Cypholepis)
• Eleusine
• Enteropogon
• Eustachys
• Harpochloa
• Leptochloa (syn. Trichloris)
• Lepturus
• Micrachne
• Microchloa (syn. Rendlia)
• Neostapfiella
• Oxychloris
• Pommereulla
• Rheochloa
• Schoenefeldia
• Stapfochloa
• Tetrapogon (syn. Saugetia)

Orcuttiinae

• Neostapfia
• Orcuttia (syn. Tuctoria)

Orininae

• Cleistogenes
• Orinus

Pappophorinae

• Neesiochloa
• Pappophorum
• Tridens (syn. Antonella)

Triodiinae

• Triodia (syn. Monodia, Plectrachne, Symplectrodia)

Tripogoninae

• Desmostachya
• Eragrostiella
• Halopyrum
• Melanocenchris
• Oropetium
• Tripogon
• Tripogonella

Supersubtribe Boutelouodinae

Boutelouinae

• Bouteloua (syn. Buchloe, Buchlomimus, Cathestecum, Chondrosum, Cyclostachya, Griffithsochloa, Opizia, Pentarrhaphis, Pringleochloa, Soderstromia)

Hilariinae

• Hilaria (syn. Pleuraphis)

Monanthochloinae

• Distichlis (syn. Monanthochloe, Reederochloa)

Muhlenbergiinae

• Muhlenbergia (syn. Aegopogon, Bealia, Blepharoneuron, Chaboissaea, Lycurus, Pereilema, Redfieldia, Schaffnerella, Schedonnardus)

Scleropogoninae

• Blepharidachne
• Dasyochloa
• Erioneuron
• Munroa
• Scleropogon
• Swallenia

Traginae

• Monelytrum
• Orthacanthus
• Pogononeura
• Polevansia
• Tragus
• Willkommia (syn. Willbleibia)

Supersubtribe Gouiniodinae

Cteniinae

• Ctenium

Farragininae

• Craspedorhachis
• Farrago

Gouiniinae

• Gouinia
• Schenckochloa
• Tridentopsis
• Triplasiella
• Triplasis
• Vaseyochloa

Hubbardochloinae

• Bewsia
• Decaryella
• Dignathia
• Gymnopogon
• Hubbardochloa
• Leptocarydion
• Leptothrium (syn. Latipes)
• Lophacme

Perotidinae

• Mosdenia
• Perotis (syn. Lopholepis, Toliara)
• Trigonochloa

Trichoneurinae

• Trichoneura

Zaqiqahinae

• Zaqiqah