Typhales

(botany) An order of marsh or aquatic monocotyledons in the subclass Commelinidae with emergent or floating stems and leaves and reduced, unisexual flowers having a single ovule in an ovary composed of a single carpel.

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Typhales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. In the Cronquist system the name was used for an order placed in the subclass Commelinidae. The order consisted of (1981):

• order Typhales

  family Sparganiaceae

  family Typhaceae

The APG II system, used here, assigns the plants involved to the order Poales.

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