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Order Dasypogonales / Tinsel Lily Flowers

    Order Dasypogonales

    Dasypogogonales is an order of flowering plants comprising shrubs and herbs with paleotropical and Australian distribution. Members of the Dasypogonales mostly have spiral, simple, and sessile leaves, bisexual flowers, and perianth consisting of tepals.

    The members’ fruit is a capsule, and the seeds are endospermic. The beautiful tinsel Lilies, pineapple bush, and Kingia australis are members of the Dasypogonales.

    Order Dasypogonales is placed under Commelinids. It only has 1 direct family[1], Dasypogonaceae, with 4 genera.