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Nymphaeales
The Nymphaeales are an order of flowering plants, including two families of aquatic herbs:
- Family Nymphaeaceae (waterlily family)
- Family Cabombaceae[?] (fanwort[?] family)
Sometimes the Cabombaceae are included within the Nymphaeaceae. The older Cronquist system also included the following familes:
- Family Nelumbonaceae[?]
- Family Barclayaceae[?]
- Family Ceratophyllaceae
The Nymphaeales, taken in the narrower sense, appear to have diverged from the other flowers very early on.
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