Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Lamiales Bromhead
Family
Phrymaceae
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Mazus Lour., Fl. Cochinch. (1790)
 Description

Fls in terminal subsecund racemes or solitary. Calyx campanulate, 5-partite, not angled. Corolla with short tube; upper lip 2-fid, erect; lower larger, spreading, 3-fid; throat with 2 protuberances. Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted on corolla-tube; anther-cells divergent, often confluent at apex. Style slender, stigma 2-lamellate. Capsule compressed-globose, loculicidally dehiscent; seeds ∞, minute. Small herbs, often prostrate and rooting at nodes with stems above or below ground. Lower lvs opp. or rosulate, upper often alt.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Number of species in New Zealand within Mazus Lour.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)3
Indigenous (Non-endemic)1
Exotic: Casual1
Total5
 Bibliography
Loureiro, J. de 1790: Flora Cochinchinensis: sistens plantas in regno Cochinchina nascentes. Quibus accedunt aliæ observatæ in Sinensi imperio, Africa Orientali, Indiæque locis variis. Omnes dispositæ secundum systema sexuale Linnæanum. Ulyssipone (Lisbon).
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.