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{{Short description|Order of flowering plants}}
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'''Arales''' is an order of [[flowering plant]]s.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wilson |first=Kenneth A. |title=The Genera of the Arales in the Southeastern United States |date=1960 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43782464 |journal=Journal of the Arnold Arboretum |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=47–72 |doi=10.5962/bhl.part.15229 |jstor=43782464 |issn=0004-2625|doi-access=free }}</ref> The name was used in the [[Cronquist system]] for an order placed in subclass ''[[Arecidae]]'', circumscribed as (1981):

* order Arales
*: family [[Acorus|Acoraceae]]
*: family [[Araceae]]
*: family [[Lemnoideae|Lemnaceae]]

In the classification system of [[Rolf Dahlgren|Dahlgren]] the Arales were in the [[superorder]] Ariflorae (also called Aranae), but did not include Acoraceae as a separate family.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Singh |first=Gurcharan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MiGeDwAAQBAJ |title=Plant Systematics: An Integrated Approach, Fourth Edition |date=2019-06-07 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-1-000-57677-1 |pages=255–259; 328–329 |language=en}}</ref> Instead, ''Acorus'', its only genus, was included in the Araceae. Arales was the only order included in the Ariflorae.

The [[APG II system]] elevates the first of these three families to become an order ''[[Acorales]]'' of its own (consisting of the single genus, ''Acorus'') and unites the last two of these families into the one family ''[[Araceae]]'', assigning this to the order ''[[Alismatales]]''.

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