Nepenthales

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Nepenthales (Nepenthales Bercht. & J.Presl) is an order of carnivorous flowering plants in the Cronquist system of plant classification.[1]

Cronquist system

The order was placed in the subclass Dilleniidae, which in the 1981 version of this system included:[1]

All three families are

pitcher plants
, which drown their prey.

APG IV system

Plant taxonomy systematists currently favor the APG IV system of 2016 over the older Cronquist system for classifying flowering plants (Angiosperms).

The 2009 APG III system assigned the first two families to the order Caryophyllales and the last family to the order Ericales.[2]

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