The Poaceae are the most economically important plant family, providing staple foods from domesticated cereal crops such as maize, wheat, rice, oats, barley, and millet for people and as feed for meat-producing animals.

Mar 13, 2025 · The Poaceae are the world’s single most important source of food. They rank among the top five families of flowering plants in terms of the number of species, but they are clearly the most abundant and important family of the Earth’s flora.

With more than 10,000 species, the grass family, Poaceae, is one of the largest families of flowering plants. Its members are monocotyledons and feature leaves with parallel veins; the flowers are usually wind-pollinated.

POACEAE By Mark T. Strong & P. Acevedo-Rodríguez A widely distributed family of primarily herbaceous or less often ligneous plants found in arctic, temperate, subtropical, and tropical regions, with ~750 genera and ~12,000 species worldwide. Unarguably, the most important family of plants economically, from which cereals,

The Poaceae are the most economically important plant family, providing staple foods from domesticated cereal crops such as maize, wheat, rice, oats, barley, and millet for people and as feed for meat-producing animals.

Important Types of Poaceae: 1. Triticum aestivum (Fig. 118.1): Habit: A cultivated annual crop plant. Root: Adventitious. Stem: Herbaceous, erect, cylindrical, fistular, with distinct nodes and internodes, unbranched, glabrous, a number of tillers. Leaf:

Key to Poaceae A family of about 771 genera and 12,074 species, herbs (and some shrubs and trees), cosmopolitan. Tribal classification largely follows FNA (2003a, 2007a), with some changes based on subsequent research, as for instance in the Chloridoideae (Peterson, Romaschenko, & Johnson 2010a).

The Poaceae are the most economically important plant family in modern times. They are used for forage , building materials ( bamboo , thatch ) and fuel ( ethanol ), as well as food. Grasses include some of the most useful plant life-forms.

Family: Poaceae — grass family Grasses are annual, biennial, or perennial plants that are usually herbaceous but may be woody in some genera. They may be terrestrial or aquatic. The leaves may be evergreen or deciduous and are all basal or alternate, and usually much longer than wide.

The Poaceae (grass family) is one of the most species-rich and economically important families in the Angiosperms. The world's top four agricultural commodities with respect to productivity, that is sugar cane, maize, rice, and wheat, belong to this family.