Meaning of liliales

liliales: In Botany it is a plant taxon, which belongs to the Taxonomic Category of Order. Name of a Plant Order that includes 10 families and about 1300 species. They have striking lily-like flowers. They are monocotyledonous, perennial, herbaceous and almost always bulbous. It belongs to the Liliopsida Class.; In his book "From Past Time", Don Artemio del Valle Arispe, provides the expression : "lilial hands" to refer to the fragile hands of Pope Innocent XI.; Liliales is incorrectly written and it should be written as "Lily" being its meaning: Family of herbaceous plants with tuber or bulb in the root and more or less showy flowers of lilium lilii: Lily in latin. About 300 genera and 4,500 species in this family were included in the 18th century. This classification has been revised in the twentieth century by reducing it to 16 genera and 635 species, among which are the tulips, lilies, the checkered and the colquicos or meadow saffron