Lilioid monocots (
lilioids,
liliid monocots,
petaloid monocots,
petaloid lilioid monocots) is an informal name used for a
grade of five
monocot orders (
Petrosaviales,
Dioscoreales,
Pandanales,
Liliales and
Asparagales) in which the majority of species have flowers with relatively large, coloured
tepals, broadly similar to those of
lilies, hence "lily-like". Petaloid monocots refers to the flowers having tepals which all resemble petals (petaloid). The taxonomic terms
Lilianae or
Liliiflorae have also been applied to this assemblage at various times. In older classification systems, still found in many books and other sources, many of the species in this group of plants were put into a very broadly defined family,
Liliaceae sensu lato or
s.l. (lily family) . Within the monocots they were distinguished from the
Glumaceae.