{{Short description|Order of flowering plants}}

thumb|Member of the Zosteraceae '''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:<ref>{{cite book |last=Cronquist |first=A |title=An integrated system of classification of flowering plants |year=1981 |publisher=Columbia University Press |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/integratedsystem0000cron|url-access=registration |isbn=9780231038805}}</ref>

* order Najadales ** family Aponogetonaceae ** family Scheuchzeriaceae ** family Juncaginaceae ** family Potamogetonaceae ** family Ruppiaceae ** family Najadaceae ** family Zannichelliaceae ** family Posidoniaceae ** family Cymodoceaceae ** family Zosteraceae

The APG II system, used here, assigns the plants involved to the expanded order Alismatales, in the clade 'monocots'.<ref>{{Cite journal |author=Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II |author-link=Angiosperm Phylogeny Group |others=Bremer, B., K. Bremer, M.W. Chase, J.L. Reveal, D.E. Soltis, P.S. Soltis & P.F. Stevens |year=2003 |title=An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II |url=http://www.biodiversitas.org.br/listasmg/apg2.pdf |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=141 |issue=4 |pages=399–436 |doi=10.1046/j.1095-8339.2003.t01-1-00158.x |archive-date=2020-10-22 |access-date=2022-11-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022000504/http://www.biodiversitas.org.br/listasmg/apg2.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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Category:Historically recognized angiosperm orders