Centotheceae

{{Short description|Tribe of grasses}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Centotheca lappacea imported from iNaturalist photo 172276896 on 30 December 2023.jpg

| image_caption = Centotheca lappacea

| display_parents = 2

| taxon = Centotheceae

| authority = Ridl. (1907)

| synonyms = subtribe Centothecinae {{small|Benth. (1881)}}

| synonyms_ref =

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision = *Centotheca

• Megastachya

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Centotheceae is a small tribe of grasses with six species in two genera, distributed in Africa and Asia. It belongs to a basal lineage in subfamily Panicoideae, sometimes referred to as "centothecoid clade".{{cite journal |last1=Soreng |first1=Robert J. |last2=Peterson |first2=Paul M. |last3=Romschenko |first3=Konstantin |last4=Davidse |first4=Gerrit |last5=Zuloaga |first5=Fernando O. |last6=Judziewicz |first6=Emmet J. |last7=Filgueiras |first7=Tarciso S. |last8=Davis |first8=Jerrold I. |last9=Morrone |first9=Osvaldo |title=A worldwide phylogenetic classification of the Poaceae (Gramineae) |journal=Journal of Systematics and Evolution |volume=53 |issue=2 |year=2015 |pages=117–137 |issn=1674-4918 |doi=10.1111/jse.12150|hdl=11336/25248 |hdl-access=free }} {{open access}} Unlike many other clades in the subfamily Panicoideae, they use the C₃ photosynthetic pathway.{{cite journal |author=Grass Phylogeny Working Group II |date=2012 |title=New grass phylogeny resolves deep evolutionary relationships and discovers C₄ origins |journal=New Phytologist |volume=193 |issue=2 |pages=304–312 |doi=10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03972.x |pmid=22115274|hdl=2262/73271 |hdl-access=free }} {{open access}}