†order Dioscoreales Brown 1835
Monocotyledoneae - Liliidae - Liliidae
PaleoDB taxon number: 54969
Parent taxon: Liliidae according to D.J. Mabberley 2000
Sister taxa: Asparagales, Haemodorales, Liliales, Orchidales, Velloziales
Subtaxa: Dioscoreaceae, Smilacaceae, Varipilicutis
Ecology: "photoautotroph"