familyMayacaceae
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Mayacaceae
Common names: Mayaca or Bog-moss Family
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 22. Treatment on page 168.
Herbs, perennial. Leaves cauline, alternate; sheath absent; blade simple, linear to filiform, margins entire, 1-veined. Inflorescences: solitary flowers that appear lateral. Flowers bisexual, radially symmetric; sepals 3, sepaloid, distinct, equal; petals 3, petaloid, distinct, equal; stamens 3; staminodes absent; anthers dehiscing by apical pores or porelike slits; ovary superior, 3-carpellate, 1-locular; ovules 2-seriate; styles 1, simple; stigmas 1, simple or slightly 3-fid. Fruits loculicidal capsules. Seeds: embryotega present.
Distribution
3 in warm temperate to tropical America and 1 in West Africa
Discussion
Genera 1, species ca. 4 (1 species in the flora).
Selected References
None.
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dehiscing +
simple +
linear;filiform +
loculicidal +
Mayaca or Bog-moss Family +
3 in warm temperate to tropical America and 1 in West Africa +
absent +
symmetric +
lateral +
bisexual +
alternate +
cauline +
1-veined +
3-carpellate +
superior +
2-seriate +
petaloid +
distinct +
equal +
sepaloid +
distinct +
equal +
absent +
pore-like +
absent +
simple +
3-fid +
simple +
Mayacaceae +
family +
perennial +