Commelineae

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Cladus: Commelinids
Ordo: Commelinaless

Familia: Commelinaceae
Subfamilia: Commelinoideae
Tribus: Commelineae
Genera: Aneilema – Anthericopsis – Buforrestia – Commelina – Dictyospermum – Floscopa – Murdannia – Pollia – Polyspatha – Pseudoparis – Rhopalephora – Stanfieldiella – Tapheocarpa – Tricarpelema
Name

Commelineae Dumort., Anal. Fam. Pl.: 55. (1829)

Type genus: Commelina L. (1753)

References

Dumortier, B.C.J. 1829. Analyse des Familles de Plantes 55. BHL
Burns, J.H., Faden, R.B. & Steppan, S.J. 2011. Phylogenetic Studies in the Commelinaceae Subfamily Commelinoideae Inferred from Nuclear Ribosomal and Chloroplast DNA Sequences. Systematic Botany 36(2): 268–276. DOI: 10.1600/036364411X569471 PDF Reference page.
Evans, T.M., Faden, R.B., Simpson, M.G., & Sytsma, K.J. 2000. Phylogenetic relationships in the Commelinaceae: I. A cladistic analysis of morphological data. Systematic Botany 25(4), 668-691. JSTOR Full text PDF. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2015. Commelineae. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2015 Aug 30.
Zuntini, A.R., Frankel, L.P., Pokorny, L., Forest, F. & Baker, W.J. 2021. A comprehensive phylogenomic study of the monocot order Commelinales, with a new classification of Commelinaceae. American Journal of Botany 108(7): 1066–1086. DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1698 Open access Reference page.

Commelineae is a tribe of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the dayflower family (Commelinaceae). The tribe consists of 13 genera and about 350 species. It is one of two tribes in the subfamily Commelinoideae, the other being the Tradescantieae, which is made up of 26 genera and about 300 species. The remaining two genera in the family are in a separate subfamily, the Cartonematoideae.

The Commelineae can be separated morphologically from its sister tribe, the Tradescantieae, through a number of technical characters. These include having six subsidiary cells with the terminal pair always being smaller than the second lateral pair, pollen with a spiny exine and a perforate tectum, primarily zygomorphic flowers, non-moniliform filament hairs, no silica in the epidermis, and small chromosomes.[1] Molecular phylogenetics generally supports the separation of the two tribes.[2]
References

Faden, Robert B. (1998), "Commelinaceae", in Kubitzki, Klaus (ed.), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol. IV, Berlin: Springer, pp. 109–128
Evans, Timothy M.; Systsma, Kenneth J.; Faden, Robert, B.; Givnish, Thomas J. (2003), "Phylogenetic Relationships in the Commelinaceae: A Cladistic Analysis of rbcL Sequences and Morphology", Systematic Botany, 28 (2): 270–292, doi:10.1043/0363-6445-28.2.270