Acorales

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Acorales
Sweet Flag (Acorus calamus) - spadix
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Acorales

Acorales is the sweet flag order of flowering plants and the most basal lineage among the monocotyledons, which are characterized by having a single seed leaf. This order contains the single family Acoraceae and one genus (Acorus), which comprises two to four species of plants that resemble the irises.