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Nymphaeales

The Nymphaeales are an order of flowering plants, including two families of aquatic herbs:

Sometimes the Cabombaceae are included within the Nymphaeaceae. The older Cronquist system also included the following familes:

The Nymphaeales, taken in the narrower sense, appear to have diverged from the other flowers very early on.



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