Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Nymphaeales are an order of flowering plants, including two families of aquatic herbs: Family Nymphaeaceae (waterlily family) Family Cabombaceae (fanwort family) Sometimes the Cabombaceae are included within the Nymphaeaceae. The older Cronquist system also included the following familes: Family Nelumbonaceae Family Barclayaceae Family Ceratophyllaceae The Nymphaeales, taken in the narrower sense, appear to have diverged from the other flowers very early on. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.