Commelinids

Commelinids
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous–recent
Cock's-foot grass (Dactylis glomerata)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Orders
Diversity[citation needed]
About 1,420 genera

In plant taxonomy, commelinids (originally commelinoids[1][2]) is a clade of flowering plants within the monocots, distinguished by having cell walls containing ferulic acid.[3][4]

The commelinids are the only clade that the APG IV system 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 are the alismatid monocots and the lilioid monocots.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference APG I was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference APG II was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Harris & Hartley 1976.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Dahlgren 1983 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).