Mayaca Aubl.

Leistner, O.A. (2005) Seed plants of southern tropical Africa: families and genera SABONET Report No. 26 SABONET, Pretoria

Description of the genus

Freshwater aquatic herbs, submerged, floating or growing in swamps, with slender, densely leafy stems bearing adventitious roots. Leaves spirally arranged, sessile, linear to filiform, without a basal sheath, bidentate at the apex. Flowers regular, solitary, aerial but without nectaries; pedicels long, in axils of sheathing bracts but may appear to be terminal. Sepals 3, free, green, valvate to subvalvate. Petals 3 free, shortly clawed, imbricate, white. Ovary superior. Fruit a loculicidal capsule opening by 3 valves.

Worldwide: 3-9 species in tropical America, 1 in tropical west Africa.

Zambia: 1 taxon.

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Species	FZ divisions	Provinces	Content
baumii Gürke	N,W	Nw,Lp

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External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Mayaca
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Mayaca
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Mayaca
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Mayaca
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Mayaca
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Mayaca
JSTOR Plant Science: Mayaca
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Mayaca
Plants of the World Online: Mayaca
Tropicos: Mayaca
Wikipedia: Mayaca

Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Nicholas Wightman, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wightman, N., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Genus page: Mayaca.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=2391, retrieved 21 December 2024

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