Juncales

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Juncales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. In the Engler system (update, of 1964) and in the Cronquist system (of 1981, which placed this order in subclass Commelinidae) it is circumscribed as:

• order Juncales

  family Juncaceae

  family Thurniaceae

However, the Thorne system (1992) accepts it as consisting of :

• order Juncales

  family Prioniaceae

  family Thurniaceae

  family Juncaceae

  family Cyperaceae

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