Poales

Poales
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous - Recent (but see text)
Common wheat (Triticum aestivum)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Small[1]
Families

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Diversity
Over 23,700 species in about 1,017 genera.[2]

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. 14 plant families are currently recognized by botanists to be part of Poales.[3]

  1. ^ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x. hdl:10654/18083.
  2. ^ Christenhusz, M.J. & Byng, J.W. (2016) The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase. Phytotaxa 261 (3): 201–217. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.26
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Wang was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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