commelinales is the botanical name of an order of flowering plants. 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.