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This superorder is extraordinary variable and contains some groups which, in our estimation, are likely to have retained many features from the ancestral monocotyledons. The wide range of variation makes a definition difficult and in an evolutionary sense this unit is undoubtedly paraphyletic rather than monophyletic. Some of its orders, on the other hand, we presume to be monophyletic.
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Rasmussen, F.N. (1985). Superorder Liliiflorae. In: The Families of the Monocotyledons. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61663-1_11
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