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Dioscoreales
Sign in to saveThe Dioscoreales are an order of monocotyledonous flowering plants, organized under modern classification systems, such as the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group or the Angiosperm Phylogeny Web. Among monocot plants, Dioscoreales are grouped with the lilioid monocots, wherein they are a sister group to the Pandanales. In total, the order Dioscoreales comprises three families, 22 genera and about 850 species.
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Dioscoreales is an order of plants within the kingdom Plantae. It belongs to the phylum Tracheophyta and the class Liliopsida, with Lilianae and Monocots listed as parent taxa. The order has been present for about 116 million years. Its common names include 薯蓣目 and Yamsrotordenen.
Taxonomic records indicate that Dioscoreales is an accepted taxon. While one source lists the class as Magnoliopsida, others identify it as Liliopsida. The order is referenced by 666 other encyclopedia articles.
Occurrence data shows a total of 746,262 records. Specific records from iDigBio number 12, with no associated media. These records are held by institutions NHMUK and UF and originate from Nigeria and the United States.
Synthesized by Vinony from 25 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, GBIF, Gbif Occ, WoRMS, iDigBio, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Species
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- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderDioscoreales
薯蓣目（学名：Dioscoreales）在現代的植物分類系統（英语：list of systems of plant classification）（例如：被子植物种系发生学组及被子植物親緣分類網（英语：Angiosperm Phylogeny Web）等）是被子植物单子叶植物的一目。 同屬類百合單子葉植物（英语：lilioid monocots），本目物種與露兜树目物種是旁系群關係。 現時本目包括有三個科、22個属和850個 物种。
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- Description
- Taxonomy
- Pre-Darwinian
- Post-Darwinian
- Molecular phylogenetics and the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
- Phylogeny
- Evolution
- Subdivision
- Etymology
- Distribution and habitat
- Ecology
- Uses
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- Articles and chapters
- Books and symposia
- Databases
- APG
- External links
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. Among monocot plants, Dioscoreales are grouped with the lilioid monocots, wherein they are a sister group to the Pandanales. In total, the order Dioscoreales comprises three families, 22 genera and about 850 species.
Dioscoreales contains the family Dioscoreaceae, which notably includes the yams (Dioscorea) and several other bulbous and tuberous plants, some of which are heavily cultivated as staple food sources in certain countries.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dioscoreales” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.