Surrey WL Jacobs, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Karen L Wilson, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Published online: March 2003
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003708
The Poales include the well-known and economically important grass family (Gramineae), the well-known sedge family (Cyperaceae), the colourful bromeliads (Bromeliaceae) and several less well-known families of plants. All belong to the group of flowering plants known as the monocotyledons.
Keywords: grasses; sedges; monocots; pineapples
| Further Reading | |
| Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (1999) An ordinal classification for the families of flowering plants. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: 531–553. | |
| book Arber A (1925) Monocotyledons: A Morphological Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | |
| Grass Phylogeny Working Group (2001) Phylogeny and subfamilial classification of the grasses (Poaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 88: 373–457. | |
| Hsiao C, Jacobs SWL, Chatterton NJ and Asay KH (1999) A molecular phylogeny of the grass family (Poaceae) based on the sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA (ITS). Australian Systematic Botany 11: 667–688. | |
| book Jacobs SWL and Everett J (2000) Grasses: Systematics and Evolution. Melbourne: CSIRO. | |
| book Judd WS, Campbell CS, Kellogg EA and Stevens PF (1999) Plant Systematics. A Phylogenetic Approach. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates. | |
| book Kubitzki K (1998) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol. 4. Berlin: Springer. | |
| book Rudall PJ, Cribb PJ, Cutler DF and Humphries CJ (1995) Monocotyledons: Systematics and Evolution. Kew, England: Royal Botanic Gardens. | |
| book Wilson KL and Morrison DA (2000) Monocots: Systematics and Evolution. Melbourne: CSIRO. | |
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