Pharoideae

Pharoideae is a subfamily of the true grass family Poaceae, containing the single tribe Phareae with the two genera Leptaspis and Pharus. Its members grow on the shaded floors of tropical to warm temperate forests.

Pharoideae
Pharus parvifolius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Pharoideae L.G.Clark & Judz. (1996)
Tribe:	Phareae Stapf (1898)
Genera
Leptaspis Pharus Scrotochloa
Synonyms
Leptaspidoideae C.O. Morales (1998) supertribe Pharoidae L. Liu (1980)

This subfamily is one of the earliest-diverging grass lineages, older than the big BOP and PACMAD clades:^[1]

Poaceae	Anomochlooideae Pharoideae Puelioideae BOP clade PACMAD clade