Liliales (older name:
Lilia) is an
order of
monocotyledonous flowering plants in the
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group and
Angiosperm Phylogeny Web system, within the
lilioid monocots. This order of necessity includes the
family Liliaceae. The
APG III system (2009) places this order in the
monocot clade. In APG III, the family
Luzuriagaceae is combined with the family
Alstroemeriaceae and the family
Petermanniaceae is recognized. Both the Lililiales order and the Liliaceae family have had a widely disputed history, with the
circumscription varying greatly from one taxonomist to another. Previous members of this order, which at one stage included most monocots with conspicuous
tepals and lacking
starch in the
endosperm are now distributed over three orders, Liliales,
Dioscoreales and Asparagales, using predominantly
molecular phylogenetics, and is
monophyletic, with ten families. Well known plants from the order include
Lilium (lily),
tulip, the North American wildflower
Trillium, and
greenbrier.