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Commelinidae (Commelinids)

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Arecales

Poales. Node. Commelinids. Commeliniden. Commelinids. In plant taxonomy, commelinids (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.

Commelinids

The commelinids are the only clade that the APG has informally named within the monocots. The remaining monocots are a paraphyletic unit. Members of the commelinid clade have cell walls containing UV-fluorescent ferulic acid.[1] Classification[edit] 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.[2] 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. Commelinids. [edit] Classification System: APG III (down to family level) Main Page Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Cladus: Commelinids Ordines: Arecales - Commelinales - Poales - Zingiberales Familia: Dasypogonaceae.