Mayacaceae
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Mayacaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has not been recognized by all that many taxonomists.
The APG II system, of 2003, does recognize such a family, and assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids, in the monocots. The family consists of probably fewer than a dozen species, in one genus, Mayaca.
This represents a slight change from the APG system, 1998, which left the family unplaced as to an order, but did place it in this same clade (although it used the spelling "commelinoids").
The Cronquist system, of 1981, also recognised such a family and placed it in the order Commelinales in the subclass Commelinidae in class Liliopsida [=monocotyledons] in division Magnoliophyta [=angiosperms].
External links :
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- Mayacaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. Version: 27th April 2006. http://delta-intkey.com.
- Mayacaceae in the Flora of North America
- NCBI Taxonomy Browser
- links at CSDL
