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|accepted_name=Mazus
|accepted_authority=Loureiro
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Cochinch.
|place=2: 385. 1790
|year=1790
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Hornemannia
|authority=Willdenow
}}
|hierarchy=Mazaceae;Mazus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Mazaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mazus]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek mazos, breast, alluding to two ridges on abaxial lip of corolla or to nipplelike tubercles at inner throat of corolla in M. pumilus
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 5, 6, 363, 371
|treatment_page=page 364
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or perennials, stolons absent or present. <b>Stems</b> glabrous or hairy. <b>Racemes</b>: bracts absent. <b>Pedicels</b> present; bracteoles present. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx campanulate to funnelform, lobes lanceolate to slightly ovate; corolla purplish to violet and white or white with throats usually spotted yellow, abaxial lobes 3, forming a prominent, projecting lip, adaxial 2; abaxial throat lined with clavate trichomes; stamens: filaments glabrous, anthers often loosely connate in pairs. <b>Capsules</b> obovoid. <b>Seeds</b>: wings absent. <b>x</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|distribution=e Asia;introduced also in Central America;South America;Europe;Africa;Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 33 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Stolons absent; corollas 7–9 mm.
|[[Mazus pumilus|Mazus pumilus]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Stolons present; corollas 13–22 mm.
|[[Mazus miquelii|Mazus miquelii]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Mazus
|author=Brian R. Keener
|authority=Loureiro
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=Hornemannia
|basionyms=
|family=Mazaceae
|distribution=e Asia;introduced also in Central America;South America;Europe;Africa;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Cochinch.
|publication year=1790
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V17/V17_1258.xml
|genus=Mazus
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