Pharoideae

{{short description|Subfamily of plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Pharus_parvifolius_Nash_ssp._parvifolius_Judz._(14730968949).jpg

|image_caption = Pharus parvifolius

|parent_authority = L.G.Clark & Judz. (1996)

|taxon = Phareae

|authority = Stapf (1898)

|subdivision_ranks = Genera

|subdivision =

• Leptaspis
• Pharus
• Scrotochloa

|synonyms =

• Leptaspidoideae {{small|C.O. Morales (1998)}}
• supertribe Pharoidae {{small|L. Liu (1980)}}

}}

Pharoideae is a subfamily of the true grass family Poaceae, containing the single tribe Phareae with the two genera Leptaspis and Pharus. Its members grow on the shaded floors of tropical to warm temperate forests.

This subfamily is one of the earliest-diverging grass lineages, older than the big BOP and PACMAD clades:{{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}}

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|1=Anomochlooideae

|2={{clade

|1=Pharoideae

|2={{clade

|1=Puelioideae

|2={{clade

|1=BOP clade

|2=PACMAD clade

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