Liliopsida
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comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with a single cotyledon and parallel-veined leaves: includes grasses and lilies and palms and orchids; divided into four subclasses or superorders: Alismatidae; Arecidae; Commelinidae; and Liliidae
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The Cronquist system also recognised this order with eight families, but organized the order in the subclass Zingiberidae of the class Liliopsida ( monocotyledons ).