A third family, the Acoraceae, was included under the older Cronquist system but does not appear closely related to the others. This family is now included in the order Acorales.
The Arales are the sister group of the Alismatales, and are now included among them.
This former order includes the largest inflorescence, the titan arum, and the smallest flowering plant and smallest fruit, found in the duckweed, Wolffia.
Former Labor Minister Farid Arales was turned over to police yesterday to serve a four-year jail sentence after a San José judge found him guilty of financial irregularities in his management of work permits granted to Nicaraguan immigrants.
Arales, who served as Labor Minister under former President José María Figueres (1994-1998), last week was sentenced to eight years in jail for extortion, but his sentence yesterday was cut in half.
In 1997, Arales entrusted a private firm -- in which he had business interests -- with issuing temporary work permits to immigrants at a cost of $25.
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