Taxonavigation

Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Cladus: Commelinids
Ordo: Poales
Familiae: Bromeliaceae – Cyperaceae – Ecdeiocoleaceae – Eriocaulaceae – Flagellariaceae – Joinvilleaceae – Juncaceae – Mayacaceae – Poaceae – Rapateaceae – Restionaceae – Thurniaceae – Typhaceae – Xyridaceae

Note: Hydatellaceae were previously recognized in Poales but are now included in Nymphaeales.

Name

Poales Small Fl. S.E. U.S. 48. (1903)

• Typus: Poa L. Sp. Pl. 1: 67. (1753)

References

• Small, J.K. 1903. Flora of the Southeastern United States, page 48.
• Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 1998. An ordinal classification for the families of flowering plants. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 85 (4): 531–553. pdf file
• Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. 2003. An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 141(4): 399–436. DOI: 10.1046/j.1095-8339.2003.t01-1-00158.x Reference page. 
• Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. 2009. An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161(2): 105–121. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x Reference page. 
• Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. 2016. An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 181(1): 1–20. DOI: 10.1111/boj.12385 Reference page. 
• Emonocot.org 2013. Poales in The Orders and Families of Monocotyledons. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2013 Sept. 16.
• Givnish, T.J., Ames, M., McNeal, J.R., McKain, M.R., Steele, P.R., dePamphilis, C.W., et al. 2010. Assembling the tree of the monocotyledons: plastome sequence phylogeny and evolution of Poales 1. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 97(4), 584-616. DOI: 10.3417/2010023 Full text PDF
• International Plant Names Index. 2013. Poales. Published online. Accessed 16 Sept. 2013.
• Jones, T. 2014: Why is the lawn buzzing? Biodiversity data journal 2: e1101. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e1101 Reference page. 
• Stevens, P.F. 2001 onwards. Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 14, July 2017 [and more or less continuously updated since]. Online. Reference page. 
• Trias-Blasi, A., Baker, W.J., Haigh, A.L., Simpson, D.A., Weber, O. & Wilkin, P. 2015. A genus-level phylogenetic linear sequence of monocots. Taxon 64(3): 552-581. DOI: 10.12705/643.9 . PDF available online from ResearchGate Reference page.  Excludes Poaceae
• Tropicos.org 2013. Poales . Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2013 Sept. 16.

Vernacular names

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