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“ARUNDINOIDEAE”
“CHLORIDOIDEAE”
“MICRAIROIDEAE”
“ARISTIDOIDEAE”
“DANTHONIOIDEAE”
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(previously ‘PACCMAD’ / ‘PACCAD’ / ‘PACC’)
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(the PACMAD clade is 1 of 2 major lineages (or clades) of the true grasses (‘Poaceae’), regrouping 6 subfamilies and about 5700 species, more than half of all ‘true grasses’)
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(its sister group is the BOP clade)
(the PACMAD lineage is the only group within the grasses within which the C4 photosynthesis pathway has evolved; studies have shown that this happened independently multiple times)
(the name of the clade comes from the first initials of the included subfamilies ‘Panicoideae’, ‘Arundinoideae’, ‘Chloridoideae’, ‘Micrairoideae’, ‘Aristidoideae’, and ‘Danthonioideae’)
(phylogeny of the PACMAD clade, with photosynthetic pathways for each subfamily)
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(it has no defined ‘taxonomic rank’ but is used frequently because it refers to a well-defined monophyletic group with a distinct ‘ecology’)
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