Order Pandanales Brown 1820
Parent taxon: Monocots according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Hickey 1977, Knowlton 1919, Knowlton 1926, Mabberley 2000, Shoshani et al. 1989 and Taylor et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Acorales, Aglaoreidia, Araceae, Arecaceae, Arecales, Asparagales, Commelinales, Commelinids, Dioscoreales, Liliaceae, Liliales, Petrosaviales, Poales, Zingiberales
Subtaxa: Cyclanthaceae Freycinetia Pandanaceae Stemonaceae Triuridaceae Velloziaceae
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (9 collections), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), India (2)
• Eocene of France (1), India (1)
• Paleogene of India (1)
• Cretaceous of India (1), Mexico (1), United States (2: Georgia, New Jersey)
Total: 19 collections including 21 occurrences