Monocots

Also known as Monocotyledons, endogens

Monocotyledons (), commonly referred to as monocots, (Lilianae sensu Chase & Reveal) are flowering plants whose seeds contain only one embryonic leaf, or cotyledon. A monocot taxon has been in use for several decades, but with various ranks and under several different names. The APG IV system recognises its monophyly but does not assign it to a taxonomic rank, and instead uses the term "monocots" to refer to the group.

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Monocots are flowering plants that have seeds containing just one embryonic leaf, distinguishing them from other flowering plants that have two. This group is important enough that scientists have studied and classified it for decades, and modern classification systems recognize monocots as a distinct biological group, though they're not assigned a single formal ranking level.

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taxon name: monocots
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Description
Vegetative
Organisation, growth and life forms
Leaves
Roots and underground organs
Reproductive
Flowers
Fruit and seed
Comparison with dicots
Apomorphies
Synapomorphies
Vascular system
Taxonomy
Early history
Pre-Linnean
Post Linnean
Modern era
Subdivision
Evolution
Molecular clock estimates
Core group
Aquatic monocots
Other taxa
Etymology
Ecology
Emergence
Conservation
Uses
See also
Notes
Citations
Bibliography
Books
Historical
Modern
Symposia
Chapters
Articles
Phylogenetics
APG
Websites and databases
External links

Monocotyledons are contrasted with the dicotyledons, which have two cotyledons. Unlike the monocots however, the dicots are not monophyletic and the two cotyledons are instead the ancestral characteristic of all flowering plants. Botanists now classify dicots into the eudicots ("true dicots") and several basal lineages from which the monocots emerged.