Juncales

Juncales is an order of flowering plants. In the Engler system and in the Cronquist system it is circumscribed as:

order Juncales
: family Juncaceae
: family Thurniaceae

However, the Thorne system accepts it as consisting of :

order Juncales
: family Prioniaceae
: family Thurniaceae
: family Juncaceae
: family Cyperaceae

The APG II system, used here, assigns the plants involved to the order Poales.