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Commelinoids

Commelinids
Dactylis glomerata bluete2.jpeg
Cock's-foot grass (Dactylis glomerata)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Orders

In plant taxonomy, commelinids (originally commelinoids) (plural, not capitalised) is a name used by the APG III system for a clade within the monocots, which in its turn is a clade within the angiosperms. The commelinids are the only clade that the APG has informally named within the monocots. The remaining monocots are a paraphyletic unit. Also known as the commelinid monocots it forms one of three groupings within the monocots, and the final branch, the other two groups being the alismatid monocots and the lilioid monocots.

Members of the commelinid clade have cell walls containing UV-fluorescent ferulic acid.

The commelinids were first recognized as a formal group in 1967 by Armen Takhtajan, who named them the Commelinidae and assigned them to a subclass of the monocots. However, by the release of his 1980 system of classification, he had merged this subclass into a larger one no longer considered to be a clade.

The commelinids constitute a well-supported clade within the monocots, and this clade has been recognized in all four APG classification systems.

 Acorales 

 Alismatales 

 Petrosaviales 

 Dioscoreales 115 

 Pandanales 91 

 Liliales 121 

 Asparagales 120 

 Arecales

 Poales

 Zingiberales

 Commelinales


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