Restionales

(botany) An order of monocotyledonous plants in the subclass Commelinidae having reduced flowers and a single, pendulous, orthotropous ovule in each of the one to three locules of the ovary.

An order of flowering plants, division Magnoliophyta (Angiospermae), in the subclass Commelinidae of the class Liliopsida (monocotyledons). The order consists of 4 families and about 450 species, some 400 of them belonging to the Restionaceae. The vast majority of the species grow in temperate regions of the Southern Hemisphere. The Restionales are wind- or self-pollinated, with reduced flowers and a single, pendulous, orthotropous ovule in each of the 1–3 locules of the ovary. See also Commelinidae; Cyperales; Liliopsida; Magnoliophyta.

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Restionales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. In the Cronquist system (of 1981) it is used for an order (in subclass Commelinidae) and circumscribed as:

• order Restionales

  family Flagellariaceae

  family Joinvilleaceae

  family Restionaceae

  family Centrolepidaceae

The APG II system (2003) assigns the plants involved to the order Poales.

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