露兜树目是根据1998年APG 分类法和2003年APG II 分类法新充实的一个目，属于单子叶植物，包含有5个科：

本目植物有类似棕榈的乔木，也有藤本和草本植物。有的品种叶子可以用于编制品。露兜树属的植物在澳洲经常被用来苫屋顶、编筐和制造衣物。著名的巴拿马草帽也是用本目植物的叶子编制的。

APG 分类法在1998年只包括四个科，其中霉草科尚不清楚属于哪个目，在APG II 分类法中经过新的研究结果将其分入露兜树目。

以前的分类法将这个目所属的百部科和翡若翠科列入百合目，其他各科都单独分为目。

Pandanales (pandans or screw-pines) is the botanical name for an order of flowering plants placed in the monocot clade in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group and Angiosperm Phylogeny Web systems. Within the monocots Pandanales are grouped in the lilioid monocots where they are in a sister group relationship with the Dioscoreales. Historically the order has consisted of a number of different families in different systems but modern classification of the order is based primarily on molecular phylogenetics despite diverse morphology which previously placed many of the families in other groupings based on apparent similarity. Members of the order have a subtropical distribution and includes palms, trees, shrubs, and vines as well as herbaceous plants. The order consists of 5 families, 36 genera and about 1,300 species.