Poales Temporal range: Late Cretaceous - Recent (but see text) 66–0 Ma
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Common wheat (Triticum aestivum) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Plantae |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales Small[1] |
Faimilies | |
See text | |
Diversity | |
Aboot 1,050 genera |
The Poales are a muckle order o flouerin plants in the monocotyledons, an includes faimilies o plants such as the grasses, bromeliads, an sedges. Saxteen plant faimilies are currently recognized bi botanists tae be pairt o Poales.
The APG III seestem (2009) accepts the order within a monocot clade cried commelinids, an accepts the follaein 16 faimilies:[1]