Monochlamydae is an artificial

taxonomic 280px, Generalized scheme of taxonomy Taxonomy is a practice and science concerned with classification or categorization. Typically, there are two parts to it: the development of an underlying scheme of classes (a taxonomy) and the allocation ...

group used in the identification of plants. It was largely abandoned by taxonomists in the 19th century, but has been often used since. Bentham and Hooker's classification, published in 1880, used this grouping, but stated that it was neither natural nor well defined, and that De Candolle's system was superior. Under Engler and Prantl's revision of 1931, the group Monochlamydeae was completely abandoned. The group was one of three within the

Dicotyledon The dicotyledons, also known as dicots (or, more rarely, dicotyls), are one of the two groups into which all the flowering plants (angiosperms) were formerly divided. The name refers to one of the typical characteristics of the group: namely, ...

s, the others being

Polypetalae Polypetalae was a taxonomic 280px, Generalized scheme of taxonomy Taxonomy is a practice and science concerned with classification or categorization. Typically, there are two parts to it: the development of an underlying scheme of classes (a ...

and

Gamopetalae Gamopetalae is an artificial historical group used in the identification of plants based on Bentham & Hooker system, Bentham and Hooker's classification system. Use by Bentham and Hooker George Bentham and Joseph Dalton Hooker published this ...

. It included plants with flowers that had either a calyx or corolla, but not both.

References

{{Reflist Historically recognized angiosperm taxa Taxa named by George Bentham