- Bromeliales
The "Bromeliales" is the
botanical name of an order offlowering plants . Such an order has been recognized by a few systems of plant taxonomy, with a various placement. It appears that it always has had the same : consisting only of the family "Bromeliaceae ", the bromeliad orpineapple family. The order is not recognized in theAPG II system , of 2003, which places the plants involved in the order "Poales ".It is best known from the
Cronquist system , of 1981, which placed this order in subclass "Zingiberidae ", of class "Liliopsida " [=monocotyledons] .The
Thorne system (1992) placed the order in superorder "Commelinanae " in subclass "Liliidae " [=monocotyledons] .The
Dahlgren system placed the order in superorder "Bromelianae " in subclass "Liliidae " [=monocotyledons] .The
Engler system , in its update of 1964, placed the order in class "Monocotyledoneae ".
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