Lilianae

Terminations at the rank of superorder are not standardized by the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN), although the suffix -anae has been proposed.

Liliiflorae was a term introduced by Carl Adolph Agardh in 1825 as a higher order to include the Liliaceae (which he called Coronariae) and related families.

A number of different terms were used successively to group together Liliaceae and related families, including Liliales (Lindley, 1853[14]), Coronariae (Bentham and Hooker, 1883[15]) and Liliinées (Van Tieghem, 1891[16]), till Engler (1892[17]) reintroduced Liliiflorae as a Reihe (order).

[29] The late 1960s saw a marked shift in the taxonomic treatment of this group, with the publication of four systems that would remain influential for the best part of the century, and which predominantly used the concept of superorder.

[35] At the same time Cronquist and Takhtajan, who had worked closely together, jointly published a formal proposal in English for the nomenclature and classification of the supraordinal taxa, to the level of class.

[36][d] In that system, which differed only in minor detail from 1964 (which see) he placed Lilianae together with Juncanae as superorders of the subclass Liliidae, one of four in class Liliatae (i.e.

Thorne produced many revisions of his original scheme but in 1992 he decided to follow the practice of his contemporaries (Takhtajan, Cronquist and the Dahlgrens) and abandon the use of Liliiflorae (since the suffix only applied to angiosperms) and adopt Lilianae.

In this version Lilianae was one of nine superorders within subclass Liliidae (monocotyledons) and contained five orders, Liliales, Burmanniales, Asparagales, Dioscoreales, and Orchidales.

[56] Thorne issued successive versions of his scheme [57][58][59] but in the second of his 1992 revisions he also reverted to the use of the suffix -anae over -florae for superorders, like Dahlgren mistakenly believing that Cronquist had used the term (see note above).

[34] Acorales Alismatales Petrosaviales Dioscoreales Pandanales Liliales Asparagales Dasypogonaceae Arecales Poales Zingiberales Commelinales 2.