Najadales
Najadales is the botanical name of an order of flowering plants. A well-known system that used this name is the Cronquist system (1981), which used this name for an order in subclass Alismatidae with this circumscription:[1]
- order Najadales
- family Aponogetonaceae
 - family Scheuchzeriaceae
 - family Juncaginaceae
 - family Potamogetonaceae
 - family Ruppiaceae
 - family Najadaceae
 - family Zannichelliaceae
 - family Posidoniaceae
 - family Cymodoceaceae
 - family Zosteraceae
 
 

Member of the Zosteraceae
The APG II system, used here, assigns the plants involved to the expanded order Alismatales, in the clade 'monocots'.[2]
References
    
- Cronquist, A (1981). An integrated system of classification of flowering plants. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231038805.
 - Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II (2003). Bremer, B., K. Bremer, M.W. Chase, J.L. Reveal, D.E. Soltis, P.S. Soltis & P.F. Stevens. "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II" (PDF). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 141 (4): 399–436. doi:10.1046/j.1095-8339.2003.t01-1-00158.x.
 
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