Commelinales

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae,
commelinids
Order: Commelinales
Dumort. (1829)
families

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Commelinales is the botanical name of an order of flowering plants.

In the APG II system, of 2003, the order is placed in the clade commelinids, in the monocots, and circumscribed as follows:


This represents a change from the APG system, of 1998, which had not included family Hanguanaceae in this order which was circumscribed as

  • order Commelinales
    family Commelinaceae
    family Haemodoraceae
    family Philydraceae
    family Pontederiaceae

In the Cronquist system, of 1981, this order was placed in subclass Commelinidae of class Liliopsida and the circumscription was:

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