page_title: Poales
section_title: Eriocaulales
hierarchical_section_title: Poales / Historic taxonomy / Eriocaulales
context_page_description: The Poales are a large order of flowering plants in the monocotyledons, and includes families of plants such as the grasses, bromeliads, and sedges. Sixteen plant families are currently recognized by botanists to be part of Poales.
context_section_description: Eriocaulales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. The name was published by Takenoshin Nakai. In the Cronquist system the name was used for an order placed in the subclass Commelinidae. The order consisted of one family only (1981):
  order Eriocaulales
  family Eriocaulaceae
  The APG IV system now assigns these plants to the order Poales.
caption: Eriocaulon decangulare
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