Mayacaceae

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Mayacaceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae,
commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Mayacaceae
Kunth (1842)
genera

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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].

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