1. Comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with a single cotyledon and parallel-veined leaves: includes grasses and lilies and palms and orchids; divided into four subclasses or superorders: Alismatidae, Arecidae, Commelinidae, and Liliidae
   - class Monocotyledones, Monocotyledonae, class Monocotyledonae, Liliopsida, class Liliopsida

Type of: class

Part of: Angiospermae, Anthophyta, class Angiospermae, division Anthophyta, division Magnoliophyta, Magnoliophyta

Encyclopedia: Monocotyledones