micrairoid

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noun

Any grass of the subfamily Micrairoideae, native to Australia.

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Meanings

nounmicrairoid (plural micrairoids)

plural micrairoids

  1. Any grass of the subfamily Micrairoideae, native to Australia.

    A significant past study on the systematics of Poaceae provided weak support for the sister relationship of Panicoideae to the CMAD clade (bs value: 61 %) as well as between the micrairoid/arundinoid and danthonioid/chloridoid clades (bs values: 51 %).

    2015 July 11, Joseph L. Cotton et al., “Resolving deep relationships of PACMAD grasses: a phylogenomic approach”, in BMC Plant Biology, volume 15, →DOI
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