Alismatales

Translingual

Etymology

Alisma +‎ -ales

Proper noun

Alismatales

1. A taxonomic order within the clade monocots – various aquatic plants.

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, monocots – clades

Hyponyms

• (order): Alismataceae, Aponogetonaceae, Araceae, Butomaceae, Cymodoceaceae, Hydrocharitaceae, Juncaginaceae, Limnocharitaceae, Posidoniaceae, Potamogetonaceae, Ruppiaceae, Scheuchzeriaceae, Tofieldiaceae, Zosteraceae – families

Descendants

• → Greek: αλισματώδη (alismatódi) (calque)

References

• Alismatales on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Alismatales on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Alismatales on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Alismatales at APWeb
• Alismatales at World Register of Marine Species
• Alismatales at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Alismatales at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Alismatales at Tropicos
• “Alismatales”, in Paleobiology Database, 2026
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI