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|accepted_name=Mazaceae
|accepted_authority=Reveal
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|common_names=Mazus Family
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|hierarchy=Mazaceae
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Mazaceae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 5, 6
|treatment_page=page 363
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual or perennial, not fleshy, autotrophic. <b>Stems</b> horizontal to ascending or erect, 4-angled. <b>Leaves</b> usually cauline and basal [basal only], opposite, simple; stipules absent; petiole present or absent; blade not fleshy, not leathery, margins entire, toothed, or divided. <b>Inflorescences</b> scapose or terminal racemes. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual, perianth and androecium hypogynous; sepals 5, proximally connate, calyx radially symmetric; petals 5, proximally connate, corolla bilaterally symmetric, bilabiate, tubular; stamens 4, adnate to corolla throat, didynamous, staminode 0; pistil 1, 2-carpellate, ovary superior, 2-locular, placentation axile; ovules anatropous, unitegmic, tenuinucellate; style 1; stigma 1, capitate and slightly 2-lobed. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, dehiscence loculicidal [fleshy, berrylike (Lancea)]. <b>Seeds</b> 20–40, yellowish brown, ellipsoid; embryo straight, endosperm sparse.</span><!--

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|distribution=e Asia;Australia;introduced also in Central America;South America;Europe;Africa.
|discussion=<p>Genera 3, species ca. 36 (1 genus, 2 species in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Mazaceae, which includes Dodartia Linnaeus, Lancea Hooker f. & Thomson, and <i>Mazus</i>, was described in 2011 to accommodate these genera traditionally allied with <i>Mimulus</i> in the Scrophulariaceae. P. M. Beardsley and R. G. Olmstead (2002) suggested that the three genera belonged in a more broadly circumscribed Phrymaceae. Two subfamilies were proposed, but not published, to accommodate the alignment of Lancea and <i>Mazus</i> in a clade sister to the rest of the Phrymaceae. D. C. Albach et al. (2009) suggested that, on the basis of monophyly, Lancea and <i>Mazus</i> could not be included in the Phrymaceae or any other then-circumscribed family.</p>
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name=Mazaceae
|author=Richard K. Rabeler;Craig C. Freeman
|authority=Reveal
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|family=Mazaceae
|illustrator=John Myers
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=e Asia;Australia;introduced also in Central America;South America;Europe;Africa.
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