Gramineae

• “The grass family Poaceae (also known as Gramineae) has some 10,000 species and 650 to 900 genera.”

  Grasses

• “Tall herbfields grow on well-developed humus soils, dominated by species of Compositae, Cyperaceae, Gramineae, Juncaceae, Ranunculaceae, and Umbelliferae.”

  Australian Alps montane grasslands

• “Ephedraceae, Labiatae, Gramineae, Compositae, and Leguminosae make up the understory shrubs and perennial grass of this ecoregion.”

  Sulaiman Range alpine meadows

• “In Brazil linework follows INGE, from which we lump the following classifications: "woody-grass (Gramineae)", "savanna – ombrophilous forest transition", "dense wooded savanna", and small portions of "ombrophilous forest-seasonal forest" which fell within the greater delineation.”

  Guyanan savanna

• “There are over 10 species of rooted plants with water-borne leaves and stems, generally Gramineae that are terrestrial when floodwater is absent, plus opportunistic Cyperaceae.”

  Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil

• “Alpine communities include dwarf ericaceous shrubs (Ericaceae), dwarf birch (Betula sp.), willow (Salix spp.), grass (Gramineae), lichen, and bare bedrock at elevations above the tree line.”

  Northern Cordillera forests

• “The cereals from Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture are plants in the grass family, the Gramineae, whose members produce edible and nutritious seeds, the grains.”

  Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

• “R.Br. Gramineae (Poaceae) syn: P. typhoides (Burm.)”

  Chapter 7

• “Amino acid composition of the cereal tef and related species of Eragrostis (Gramineae).”

  Chapter 28

• “Manganese and silicon interaction in the Gramineae.”

  Chapter 8

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