Commelinids

commelinids
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
(unranked):	commelinids
Orders
Arecales Commelinales Poales Zingiberales unplaced family Dasypogonaceae

The name commelinids is a plant taxonomy plural, not capitalised. It is used by the APG II system for a clade in the monocots. They have cell walls which contain ferulic acid.

It forms one of three groups in the monocots. The other two groups are the alismatid monocots and the lilioid monocots.

• order Arecales (palms)
• order Commelinales (spiderwort, water hyacinth)
• order Poales (grasses, rushes, bromeliads)
• order Zingiberales (gingers, banana)