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Mayaca
Genus of flowering plants / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the plant genus. For the former indigenous tribe in Florida, see Mayaca people.
Mayaca is a genus of flowering plants, often placed in its own family, the Mayacaceae (or Mayaceae in earlier systems).[4][5] In the APG II system of 2003, it is assigned to the order Poales in the clade commelinids. The Cronquist system, of 1981, also recognised such a family and placed it in the order Commelinales in the subclass Commelinidae.
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Mayaca fluviatilis 1775 illustration[1] | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Mayacaceae Kunth[2] |
Genus: | Mayaca Aubl. |
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The group is widely distributed in Latin America from Mexico to Argentina, as well as in the West Indies, the southeastern United States, and central Africa.[3][6][7][8]