Kingdom Plantae Family ButomaceaeMirb. Scientific name Butomus Rank Genus | Order Alismatales Species B. umbellatus Higher classification Butomaceae | |
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Similar Juncaginaceae, Alismataceae, Potamogetonaceae, Butomaceae, Hydrocharitaceae | ||
Zwanenbloem butomus umbellatus flowering rush
Butomus is the only known genus in the plant family Butomaceae, native to Europe and Asia. Two species are recognized:
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Butomaceae
The Butomaceae family has been recognized by most taxonomists as a plant family; it is sometimes called the "flowering-rush family".
The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, 1998), also recognizes such a family, and places it in the order Alismatales, in the clade monocots. The family counts a single species, Butomus umbellatus.
At the ranks of family and order, this is the same placement as in the Cronquist system. However, Cronquist assumed a much smaller order and assigned the order to subclass Alismatidae, in class Liliopsida [=monocotyledons].
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