Order of herbaceous flowering plants of marshy and aquatic habitats
Alismatales
Alisma plantago-aquatica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Clade:
Angiosperms
Clade:
Monocots
Order:
Alismatales R.Br. ex Bercht. & J.Presl[1]
Families
See Taxonomy
Snake lily (Dracunculus vulgaris) of family Araceae in Crete, Greece.Ottelia alismoides from family Hydrocharitaceae in Hyderabad, India.
The Alismatales (alismatids) are an order of flowering plants including about 4,500 species. Plants assigned to this order are mostly tropical or aquatic. Some grow in fresh water, some in marine habitats. Perhaps the most important food crop in the order is the taro plant, Colocasia esculenta.
^Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009), "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 161 (2): 105–121, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x, hdl:10654/18083
the Acorales, the Alismatales are referred to informally as the alismatid monocots. The Cronquist system (1981) places the Alismatales in subclass Alismatidae...
aroids, as well as floating or submerged aquatic plants such as seagrass (Alismatales). The most important distinction is their growth pattern, lacking a lateral...
consisting of two orders, the Acorales and Alismatales. The name has also been used to refer to the Alismatales alone. Monocots are frequently treated as...
subfamily of Araceae, in the order Alismatales. The APG III system recognizes order Acorales, distinct from the Alismatales, and as the sister group to all...
species) Acorus calamus L. not indigenous List of Alismatales of South Africa – Order: Alismatales. 11 families are represented: Alismataceae, Aponogetonaceae...
frigid moss-lichen tundra and coniferous forest. The seagrasses in the Alismatales grow in marine environments, spreading with rhizomes that grow through...
A list of prehistoric and extinct species whose fossils have been found in the La Brea Tar Pits, located in present-day Hancock Park, a city park on the...
lineages and six orders: Poales, Caryophyllales, Oxalidales, Ericales, Alismatales and Lamiales. One common trait found in several Lamiales families that...
or aponogeton family) are a family of flowering plants in the order Alismatales. In recent decades the family has had universal recognition by taxonomists...
This list includes plant species found in the state of North Carolina. Varieties and subspecies link to their parent species. Introduced species are designated...
sole genus in the family Posidoniaceae, which it places in the order Alismatales, in the clade monocots. The Angiosperm Phylogeny Website concludes that...
spade-leaf sword or creeping burhead, is a species of aquatic plants in the Alismatales. It is native to Mexico, the West Indies, Central America, South America...
The flora of the Falkland Islands comprises 178 native species (marked * in the list below), 219 non-native species ('†') and 6 of uncertain status. Thirteen...
Alismatanae order Butomales order Hydrocharitales order Najadales order Alismatales order Aponogetonales order Juncaginales order Potamogetonales order Posidoniales...
Potamogetonaceae are currently placed in the early diverging monocot order Alismatales by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. Their concept of the family includes...
number of its contained species, and its own placement in the order Alismatales, has evolved. These oceanic herbs grow underwater and have creeping stoloniferous...
sole genus in the family Posidoniaceae, which it places in the order Alismatales, in the clade monocots. The AP-Website concludes that the three families...
members of the order Poales, but the seagrasses are members of the order Alismatales. However, all of them belong to the monocot group of plants. Grasses...
these families into the one family Araceae assigning this to the order Alismatales. Wilson, Kenneth A. (1960). "The Genera of the Arales in the Southeastern...
Scheuchzeria is the only genus. In the APG II system it is placed in the order Alismatales of the monocots. It is a herbaceous perennial plant, native to cool temperate...
a water herb, belonging to the Potamogetonaceae family in the order Alismatales. The species was first described in 1887 by the British botanist, Arthur...
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