Subtribe

Subtribe is a taxonomic category ranking which is below the rank of tribe and above genus.

[1] The standard suffix for a subtribe is -ina (in animals) or -inae (in plants).

The early use of this word is from 19th century.

An example of a subtribe is Hyptidinae, a group of flowering plants that contains approximately 400 accepted species distributed in 19 genera.

[2] This botany article is a stub.