Commelinids

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.

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

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)