Liliales: Order Liliales

Liliales is an order of monocotyledonous flowering plants. This order of necessity includes the family Liliaceae, but both the family and the order have had a widely disputed history, with the circumscription varying greatly from one taxonomist to another. The best known representative of the order is the lily.

Classification

The APG II system (2003) places this order in the clade monocots and uses this circumscription:

Order Liliales

• Family Alstoemeriaceae
• Family Campynemataceae
• Family Colchicaceae
• Family Liliaceae
• Famil Luzuriagaceae
• Family Melanthiaceae
• Family Philesiaceae
• Family Rhipogonaceae
• Family Smilacaceae