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|accepted_name=Poaceae tribe Thysanolaeneae
|accepted_authority=C.E. Hubb.
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Centothecoideae;Poaceae tribe Thysanolaeneae
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Centothecoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Thysanolaeneae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 349
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose, shortly rhizomatous, reedlike. <b>Culms</b> 1.5-4 m, woody, persistent, glabrous, usually not branched above the base; internodes solid. <b>Sheaths</b> open; auricles sometimes present; ligules membranous to somewhat leathery, entire, minutely erose, or ciliolate; pseudopetioles poorly developed; blades flat, disarticulating from the sheaths when old, cross venation not evident. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, open diffuse panicles. <b>Spikelets</b> solitary, pedicellate, terete, with 2(3-4) florets, lowest floret sterile; rachillas prolonged, often terminating in a rudimentary floret; disarticulation at the pedicel bases, subsequently below the spikelets. <b>Glumes</b> membranous, shorter than the florets, 0-1-veined, obtuse; lowest florets equaling the upper florets, sterile; lowest lemmas membranous, 1-3-veined; lowest paleas not present; upper florets bisexual; upper lemmas membranous, 3-veined, unawned, marginal veins with papillose-based hairs, hairs 0.8-1.5 mm, strongly diverging at maturity; upper paleas about 1/2 as long as the lemmas, apices notched; lodicules 2, free, broadly cuneate, truncate to irregularly lobed; anthers 2(3). <b>Caryopses</b> nearly spherical to broadly ovoid; hila subbasal, punctate; embryos large, about 3/4 as long as the caryopses. <b>x</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|discussion=<p>The tribe Thysanolaeneae is native to tropical Asia and includes only the monotypic genus <i>Thysanolaena</i>. It could be included in a more broadly circumscribed Centotheceae, but the members of that tribe needs further study before changes to its circumscription are adopted.</p>
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name=Poaceae tribe Thysanolaeneae
|author=J. Gabriel Sanchez-Ken;
|authority=C.E. Hubb.
|rank=tribe
|parent rank=subfamily
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|family=Poaceae
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Centothecoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Thysanolaeneae
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