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|accepted_name=Mayacaceae
|accepted_authority=Kunth
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|common_names=Mayaca or Bog-moss Family
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|hierarchy=Mayacaceae
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Mayacaceae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
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|treatment_page=page 168
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, alternate; sheath absent; blade simple, linear to filiform, margins entire, 1-veined. <b>Inflorescences</b>: solitary flowers that appear lateral. <b>Flowers</b> 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. <b>Fruits</b> loculicidal capsules. <b>Seeds</b>: embryotega present.</span><!--

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|distribution=3 in warm temperate to tropical America and 1 in West Africa.
|discussion=<p>Genera 1, species ca. 4 (1 species in the flora).</p>
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name=Mayacaceae
|author=Robert B. Faden
|authority=Kunth
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|family=Mayacaceae
|illustrator=Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=3 in warm temperate to tropical America and 1 in West Africa.
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