41. Not surprisingly, monocots are primarily tropical. 42. The monocots usually have only one, but the rule is not absolute either way. 43. Pepper plants belong to the magnoliids, which are angiosperms but neither monocots nor eudicots. 44. Not all monocots develop like the grasses. 45. "' Asphodeloideae "'is a subfamily of the monocot order Asparagales. 46. The APG III system places it in the order Dioscoreales, in the clade monocots . 47. It was not followed in a major work on monocot taxonomy which appeared in 1998. 48. Some of the first molecular phylogenetic studies of monocots resolved the Orchidaceae as diverging next. 49. These are typically more elongated in the leaves of monocots than in those of dicots. 50. Many bulbs are produced by lilioid monocots , but not all lilioid monocots have bulbs.
