Juncales

(botany) An order of monocotyledonous plants in the subclass Commelinidae marked by reduced flowers and capsular fruits with one too many anatropous ovules per carpel.

An order of flowering plants, division Magnoliophyta (Angiospermae), in the subclass Commelinidae of the class Liliopsida (monocotyledons). The order consists of the family Juncaceae, with about 300 species, and the family Thurniaceae, with only 3. Within its subclass the order is marked by its reduced, mostly wind-pollinated flowers and capsular fruits with one to many anatropous ovules per carpel. The flowers have six sepals arranged in two more or less similar whorls, both sets chaffy and usually brown or green. See also Commelinidae; Flower; Liliopsida.

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