Monocotyledons (/ˌmɒnəˌkɒtəˈliːdənz/), commonly referred to as monocots, (Lilianae sensu Chase & Reveal) are grass and grass-like flowering plants (angiosperms)...
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The monocots (or monocotyledons) are one of the two major groups of flowering plants (or Angiosperms), the other being the dicots (or dicotyledons). In...
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This page's list covers the monocotyledon plants found in Great Britain and Ireland. This clade includes grasses, lilies, orchids, irises and a wide variety...
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Monocotyledon species found in Montana number at least 615. The Montana Natural Heritage Program has identified a number of monocot species as Species...
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pseudopetiole, a petiole like structure. Pseudopetioles occur in some monocotyledons including bananas, palms and bamboos. Stipules may be conspicuous (e...
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the seed leaves, attached to the embryonic axis. There may be one (Monocotyledons), or two (Dicotyledons). The cotyledons are also the source of nutrients...
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Family). It is considered synonymous (or nearly synonymous) with the name monocotyledon. Publication of the name is credited to Scopoli (in 1760): see author...
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the traditional sense) are paraphyletic because the group excludes monocotyledons. "Dicotyledon" has not been used as a botanic classification for decades...
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Dicotyledon (section Comparison with monocotyledons)
within this group. The other group of flowering plants were called monocotyledons (or monocots), typically each having one cotyledon. Historically, these...
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aerial portions of the plant. The cotyledon of grasses and many other monocotyledons is a highly modified leaf composed of a scutellum and a coleoptile....
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treated this as one of six subclasses within the class Liliopsida (=monocotyledons). It consisted of the following:[citation needed] subclass Commelinidae...
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assigned the order to the subclass Arecidae in the class Liliopsida (= monocotyledons). The Thorne system (1992) and the Dahlgren system assigned the order...
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Gonystylus, Ramin Ulmaceae (Elm family) Ulmus, Elm Zelkova, Zelkova About 10 Monocotyledon families include trees. Asparagaceae (Asparagus family) Cordyline, Cabbage...
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modern meaning of all the flowering plants including Dicotyledons and Monocotyledons. The APG system treats the flowering plants as an unranked clade without...
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the non-reproductive part of the flower called the perianth, and in monocotyledons, may not be differentiated. If this is the case, then they are described...
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from the original on 6 November 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022. herbaceous monocotyledons lack cambial secondary growth but may have tough leaves and hard, fibrous...
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called skotomorphogenesis, which contrasts photomorphogenesis. Epicotyl Monocotyledon Dicotyledon "hypocotyl". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford...
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(Andersson) Rissler (1868–1918) was a Swedish botanist known for her work on monocotyledon anatomy. Her parents were Anna Elisabeth Amanda (nee Tigerhielm) and...
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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...
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distally ascending, reflexed (folded back), or lanceolate. Like many monocotyledons, the perianth is homochlamydeous, which is undifferentiated into separate...
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Extinct in the wild (EW): 45 species Critically endangered (CR): 5,702 species Endangered (EN): 10,901 species Vulnerable (VU): 9,673 species ...
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Triteleia is a genus of monocotyledon flowering plants also known as triplet lilies. The 16 species are native to western North America, from British...
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plant taxonomists have also used the rank of subphylum, for instance monocotyledons as a subphylum of phylum Angiospermae and vertebrates as a subphylum...
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places the Alismatales in subclass Alismatidae, class Liliopsida [= monocotyledons] and includes only three families as shown: Alismataceae Butomaceae...
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Grisebach, their botanical authority, in 1854 as Zingiberides, an order of monocotyledons, subdivided into two families, Scitamineae and Musaceae. Based on morphological...
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analysis of rbcL sequences identifies Acorus calamus as the primal extant monocotyledon. Duvall 1993 Duvall, Melvin R.; Clegg, Michael T.; Chase, Mark W.; Clark...
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Urs; Nyffeler, R. (eds.). Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Monocotyledons (2nd ed.). Berlin: Springer-Verlag GmbH. pp. 1353–1385. Henley, R.W...
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Humphries, C.J., eds. (1995), Monocotyledons: systematics and evolution (Proceedings of the International Symposium on Monocotyledons: Systematics and Evolution...
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Retrieved 27 July 2015. Klaus Kubitzki (Editor) Flowering Plants. Monocotyledons: Lilianae (except Orchidaceae), p. 305, at Google Books Michael Hickey...
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at times, grows much faster.[clarification needed] Despite being a monocotyledon, it has annual growth rings. There is considerable genetic variation...
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