1. Mayaca Aubl. Pl Guian. 1: 42. 1775
Description
This section is from the book "An Illustrated Flora Of The Northern United States, Canada And The British Possessions Vol1", by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown. Also available from Amazon: An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 Volume Set..
1. Mayaca Aubl. Pl Guian. 1: 42. 1775
About 7 species known, natives of warm and tropical America. Only 2 species in the United States. Type species: Mayaca fluviatilis Aubl.
[Aboriginal name of these plants in Guiana.]
1. Mayaca Aubleti Michx. Mayaca
Fig. 1131
Mayaca Aubleti Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 26. 1803. Mayaca Michauxii Schott & Endl. Melet. 1: 24. 1832.
Stems tufted, 3-15' long, usually little branched. Leaves densely clothing the stem and widely spreading, linear-lanceolate, translucent, 2"-3' long, about i" wide; peduncles 2"-6" long, very slender, recurved in fruit; flowers 3"-4" broad, axillary, but borne near the ends of branches, lateral, rarely more than one on each branch; capsule oblong-oval, about as long as the sepals, tipped until dehiscence by the subulate style.
In fresh water pools and streams, southeastern Virginia to Florida and Texas. May-July.
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