Monocots
Sign in to saveMonocotyledons (), commonly referred to as monocots, (Lilianae sensu Chase & Reveal) are flowering plants whose seeds contain only one embryonic leaf, or cotyledon. A monocot taxon has been in use for several decades, but with various ranks and under several different names. The APG IV system recognises its monophyly but does not assign it to a taxonomic rank, and instead uses the term "monocots" to refer to the group.
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Monocots are flowering plants that have seeds containing just one embryonic leaf, distinguishing them from other flowering plants that have two. This group is important enough that scientists have studied and classified it for decades, and modern classification systems recognize monocots as a distinct biological group, though they're not assigned a single formal ranking level.
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42 sectionsContents
- Description
- Vegetative
- Organisation, growth and life forms
- Leaves
- Roots and underground organs
- Reproductive
- Flowers
- Fruit and seed
- Comparison with dicots
- Apomorphies
- Synapomorphies
- Vascular system
- Taxonomy
- Early history
- Pre-Linnean
- Post Linnean
- Modern era
- Subdivision
- Evolution
- Molecular clock estimates
- Core group
- Aquatic monocots
- Other taxa
- Etymology
- Ecology
- Emergence
- Conservation
- Uses
- See also
- Notes
- Citations
- Bibliography
- Books
- Historical
- Modern
- Symposia
- Chapters
- Articles
- Phylogenetics
- APG
- Websites and databases
- External links
Monocotyledons (), commonly referred to as monocots, (Lilianae sensu Chase & Reveal) are flowering plants whose seeds contain only one embryonic leaf, or cotyledon. A monocot taxon has been in use for several decades, but with various ranks and under several different names. The APG IV system recognises its monophyly but does not assign it to a taxonomic rank, and instead uses the term "monocots" to refer to the group.
Monocotyledons are contrasted with the dicotyledons, which have two cotyledons. Unlike the monocots however, the dicots are not monophyletic and the two cotyledons are instead the ancestral characteristic of all flowering plants. Botanists now classify dicots into the eudicots ("true dicots") and several basal lineages from which the monocots emerged.