Arecales

Arecales; Temporal range: Late Cretaceous - Recent
	Areca catechu
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Arecales; Bromhead
Families
	Arecaceae; Dasypogonaceae;
Diversity
	206 genera

Arecales is an order of flowering plants. The order has been widely recognised only for the past few decades; until then, the accepted name for the order including these plants was Principes.

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