Liliales
Sign in to saveLiliales is an order of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group and Angiosperm Phylogeny Web system, within the lilioid monocots. This order of necessity includes the family Liliaceae. The APG III system (2009) places this order in the monocot clade. In APG III, the family Luzuriagaceae is combined with the family Alstroemeriaceae and the family Petermanniaceae is recognized. Both the order Lililiales and the family Liliaceae have had a widely disputed history, with the circumscription varying greatly from one taxonomist to another. Previous members of this order, w
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Liliales is an order of flowering plants within the monocots (plants with one seed leaf) that includes the family Liliaceae and several related plant families. Because plant scientists have frequently disagreed about which plants belong in this group, its membership has changed significantly over time as classification systems have been updated.
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37 sectionsContents
- Description
- Phytochemistry
- Genome
- Taxonomy
- History
- Origins
- Phyletic systems
- Molecular phylogenetic systems
- Phylogeny
- Biogeography and evolution
- Subdivision
- Families
- Corsiaceae
- Campynemataceae
- Melanthiaceae
- Petermanniaceae
- Colchicaceae
- Alstroemeriaceae
- Ripogonaceae
- Philesiaceae
- Smilacaceae
- Liliaceae
- Distribution and habitat
- Uses
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- Books and symposia
- Historical sources
- Chapters
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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. This order of necessity includes the family Liliaceae. The APG III system (2009) places this order in the monocot clade. In APG III, the family Luzuriagaceae is combined with the family Alstroemeriaceae and the family Petermanniaceae is recognized. Both the order Lililiales and the family Liliaceae have had a widely disputed history, with the circumscription varying greatly from one taxonomist to another. Previous members of this order, which at one stage included most monocots with conspicuous tepals and lacking starch in the endosperm are now distributed over three orders, Liliales, Dioscoreales and Asparagales, using predominantly molecular phylogenetics. The newly delimited Liliales is monophyletic, with ten families. Well known plants from the order include Lilium (lily), tulip, the North American wildflower Trillium, and greenbrier.
Thus circumscribed, this order consists mostly of herbaceous plants, but lianas and shrubs also occur. They are mostly perennial plants, with food storage organs such as corms or rhizomes. The family Corsiaceae is notable for being heterotrophic.