Haloragales

(botany) An order of dicotyledonous plants in the subclass Rosidae containing herbs with perfect or often unisexual, more or less reduced flowers, and a minute or vestigial perianth.

An order of flowering plants, division Magnoliophyta (Angiospermae), in the subclass Rosidae of the class Magnoliopsida (dicotyledons). The order consists of 2 families, with about150 species in all. The Haloragales are herbs with perfect or often unisexual, more or less reduced flowers. Many of the species are aquatic. Pollen is commonly distributed by wind or water.The aquarium plant called parrot's feather (Myriophyllum, family Haloragaceae) and the very large-leaved plant Gunnera, (family Gunneraceae) are well-known members of the Haloragales. See also Magnoliophyta; Magnoliopsida; Plant kingdom; Rosidae.

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Haloragales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. In the Cronquist system of classification, of 1981, it was placed in subclass Rosidae and had this circumscription:

• order Haloragales

  family Haloragaceae (this includes water milfoil)

  family Gunneraceae

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