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The commelinids are a group of 29 interrelated families of flowering plants, named for one of the four included orders, Commelinales. [a] This subgroup of the monocots accounts for most of the global agricultural output; the grass family alone contains the major cereal grains (including rice, wheat, and maize or corn), along with forage grasses, sugar cane, and bamboo.
The monocots are extremely important economically, culturally, and ecologically, and make up a majority of plant biomass used in agriculture. Common crops such as onions, garlic, rice, wheat, maize, sugarcane are all monocots.
This page's list covers the monocotyledon plants found in Great Britain and Ireland. This clade includes grasses , lilies , orchids , irises and a wide variety of aquatic plants. Status key: * indicates an introduced species and e indicates an extinct species.
This category should contain only articles about the families of monocots, when the articles are at the scientific name, or redirects from the scientific name in the case of monotypic taxa or articles at the English name.
This is the top level category for the monocots, a clade of angiosperms (flowering plants) in the APG IV system (2016), and for the subdivisions of the clade (orders, families, genera and species). Most entries should be put in one of the subcategories, but a small number of articles relating to orders, families or genera too small to have ...
Family and a common name [5] [c] Type genus and etymology [d] Total genera; global distribution Description and uses Order [20] Type genus images Alstroemeriaceae (Inca-lily family) Alstroemeria was named for Clas Alströmer (1736–1794). [21] [22] 4 genera, in Australia, New Zealand and central and southern parts of the Americas [21] [23]
Smilax is a genus of about 300–350 species, found in the tropics and subtropics worldwide. [1] They are climbing flowering plants, many of which are woody and/or thorny, in the monocotyledon family Smilacaceae, native throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world.
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 Liliopsida (monocots). [7] The name was also used in the 1981 Cronquist system. However, by the release of his 1980 system of classification, Takhtajan had merged this subclass into a larger one ...