Grass genera are the genera of the grass family Poaceae, which GBIF places in the order Poales. The backbone lists its genera under it, and the biggest by descendant taxa are Festuca with about 1,137, Poa with about 1,025, Panicum with about 744, Eragrostis with about 609 and Paspalum with about 585, followed by Aristida, Agrostis, Elymus, Digitaria and Calamagrostis, which each carry between about 350 and 455.
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GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Poaceae
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"canonicalName":"Festuca","vernacularName":"fescue","authorship":"Tourn. ex L.","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Sp. Pl.: 73 (1753)","numDescendants":1137
Children of Poaceae: Panicum
"canonicalName":"Panicum","vernacularName":"panicgrass","authorship":"L.","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Sp. Pl.: 55 (1753)","numDescendants":744
Children of Poaceae: Eragrostis
"canonicalName":"Eragrostis","authorship":"Host","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"DOUBTFUL","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Icon. Descr. Gram. Austriac. 4: 14. 1809; Beauv. Agrost. 70, t. 14. f. 11 (1812).","numDescendants":0
Children of Poaceae: Paspalum
"canonicalName":"Paspalum","vernacularName":"finger-grasses","authorship":"L.","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 2: 855 (1759)","numDescendants":585
Children of Poaceae: Aristida
"canonicalName":"Aristida","vernacularName":"Threeawn","authorship":"L.","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Sp. Pl.: 82 (1753)","numDescendants":455
Children of Poaceae: Agrostis
"canonicalName":"Agrostis","vernacularName":"bents","authorship":"L.","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Sp. Pl.: 61 (1753)","numDescendants":452
Children of Poaceae: Elymus
"canonicalName":"Elymus","vernacularName":"Wildrye","authorship":"L.","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Sp. Pl.: 83 (1753)","numDescendants":390
Children of Poaceae: Digitaria
"canonicalName":"Digitaria","vernacularName":"finger-grasses","authorship":"Haller","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Hist. Stirp. Helv. 2: 244 (1768)","numDescendants":379
Children of Poaceae: Calamagrostis
"canonicalName":"Calamagrostis","vernacularName":"small-reeds","authorship":"Adans.","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Fam. Pl. 2: 31 (1763)","numDescendants":356
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Zea may refer to:
Wikipedia: Oryza
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Oryza is a genus of plants in the grass family.
Wikipedia: Wheat
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Wheat is a group of wild and domesticated grasses of the genus Triticum ().
Wikipedia: Hordeum
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Hordeum is a genus of annual and perennial plants in the grass family.
Wikipedia: Saccharum
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Saccharum is a genus of tall perennial plants of the broomsedge tribe within the grass family.
Wikipedia: Panicum
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Panicum, commonly called panicgrass, is a large genus of about 250 species of grasses mostly native to tropical regions.
Wikipedia: Avena
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Avena is a genus of Eurasian and African plants in the grass family.
Wikipedia: Setaria
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Setaria is a widespread genus of plants in the grass family.
Wikipedia: Phragmites
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Phragmites () is a genus of six species of large perennial reed grasses found in wetlands throughout temperate and tropical regions of the world.
Wikipedia: Bromus
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Bromus is a large genus of grasses, classified in its own tribe Bromeae.
Wikipedia: Festuca
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Festuca (fescue) is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the grass family Poaceae (subfamily Pooideae).
Elymus (Wikipedia)
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Elymus may refer to:
Wikipedia: Cynodon
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Cynodon, from Ancient Greek κύων (kúōn), meaning "dog", and ὀδούς (odoús), meaning "tooth", is a genus of plants in the grass family.
Wikipedia: Bambusa
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Bambusa is a large genus of clumping bamboos.
Wikipedia: Poa
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Poa is a genus of about 570 species of grasses, native to the temperate regions of both hemispheres.
Wikipedia: Agrostis
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Agrostis (bent, bentgrass) is a large and very nearly cosmopolitan genus of plants in the grass family, found in nearly all the countries in the world.
Wikipedia: Secale
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Secale is a genus of the grass tribe Triticeae, which is related to barley (Hordeum) and wheat (Triticum).
Wikipedia: Miscanthus
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Miscanthus, or silvergrass, is a genus of African, Eurasian, and Pacific Island plants in the grass family, Poaceae.
Wikipedia: Cenchrus
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Cenchrus is a widespread genus of plants in the grass family, native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the world.
Wikipedia: Digitaria
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Digitaria is a genus of plants in the grass family native to tropical and warm temperate regions but can occur in tropical, subtropical, and cooler temperate regions as well.
Wikipedia: Eragrostis
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Eragrostis is a large and widespread genus of plants in the grass family, found in many countries on all inhabited continents and many islands.
Wikipedia: Lolium
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Lolium is a genus of tufted grasses in the bluegrass subfamily (Pooideae).
Wikipedia: Sorghum
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Sorghum bicolor, commonly called sorghum () and also known as broomcorn, great millet, Indian millet, Guinea corn, jowar, or milo, is a species in the grass genus Sorghum.
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