Arecales
| Arecales Temporal range: Late Cretaceous - Recent
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|---|---|
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| Areca catechu | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Arecales Bromhead
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| Families | |
| Diversity | |
| 206 genera | |
Arecales is an order of flowering plants. The order has been widely recognised only for the past few decades; until then, the accepted name for the order including these plants was Principes.
Taxonomy
The APG IV system of 2016 places Dasypogonaceae in this order, after studies showing Dasypogonaceae as sister to Arecaceae.[1] However, this decision has been called into question.[2]
Historical taxonomical systems
The
monocotyledons
).
The
Arecanae in the subclass Liliidae
(= monocotyledons), with the single family Arecaceae.
The
monocots
and uses this circumscription:
- order Arecales
- family Palmae
- family
This was unchanged from the APG system of 1998, although it used the spelling "commelinoids" instead of commelinids.
Principes
In
rules for botanical nomenclature provide for the use of such descriptive botanical names above the rank of family it is quite allowed to use this name even today, but in practice most systems
prefer the name Arecales.
Following this, Principes became the name of the journal of the International Palm Society, becoming Palms in 1999.
References
- PMID 30368769
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Arecales.
Data related to Arecales at Wikispecies- NCBI Taxonomy Browser
