subtribe Centothecinae Benth.

(1881) 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".

[1] Unlike many other clades in the subfamily Panicoideae, they use the C3 photosynthetic pathway.

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