Monocot Orders is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers the orders of monocot flowering plants, grasses, orchids, lilies, palms, gingers and their relatives. An entry belongs here when its own cited article states that it is an order of monocots. It excludes the eudicot and basal flowering plant orders. Members are placed by the classification their cited article gives, not by common name or appearance alone.
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Wikipedia: Poales
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The Poales are a large order of flowering plants in the monocotyledons, and includes families of plants such as the grasses, bromeliads, rushes and sedges.
Wikipedia: Asparagales
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Asparagales (asparagoid lilies) are a diverse order of flowering plants in the monocots.
Wikipedia: Alismatales
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The Alismatales (alismatids) are an order of flowering plants including about 4,500 species.
Wikipedia: Liliales
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Liliales is an order of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group and Angiosperm Phylogeny Web system, within the lilioid monocots.
Wikipedia: Arecales
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Arecales is an order of flowering plants. The order has been widely named as such only for the past few decades; until then, the accepted name for the order including these plants was Principes.
Wikipedia: Zingiberales
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The Zingiberales are flowering plants forming one of four orders in the commelinids clade of monocots, together with its sister order, Commelinales.
Wikipedia: Dioscoreales
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The Dioscoreales are an order of monocotyledonous flowering plants, organized under modern classification systems, such as the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group or the Angiosperm Phylogeny Web.
Wikipedia: Pandanales
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Pandanales, the pandans or screw-pines, is an order of flowering plants placed in the monocot clade in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group and Angiosperm Phylogeny Web systems.
Wikipedia: Commelinales
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Commelinales is an order of flowering plants.
Wikipedia: Acorus
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Acorus is a genus of monocot flowering plants.
Wikipedia: Petrosaviaceae
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Petrosaviaceae is a family of flowering plants belonging to a monotypic order, Petrosaviales.
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