What is Commelinales?
{{Taxobox |name = Commelinales |fossil_range = [[Late Cretaceous]] - Recent |image = Tradescantia_sp.0.jpg |image_caption = ''[[Tradescantia]]'' |regnum = [[Plantae]] |unranked_divisio = [[Angiosperms]] |unranked_classis = [[Monocots]] |unranked_ordo = [[Commelinids]] |ordo = '''Commelinales''' |ordo_authority = [[Barthélemy Charles Joseph du Mortier|Dumort.]] |subdivision_ranks = Families |subdivision = See text }} '''Commelinales''' is the botanical name of an order of [[flowering plant]]s. It is considered that the Commelinales together with [[Zingiberales]] evolved in the [[Late Cretaceous]] around 80 millions of years ago. Two of the best-known genera in the order are ''[[Commelina]]'' and ''[[Tradescantia]]''. Commelinales is made of the families [[Commelinaceae]], [[Haemodoraceae]], [[Hanguanaceae]], [[Phylidraceae]], and [[Pondteriaceae]]. Another name for this plant order is the '''Haemodorales'''. {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Commelinales| ]]