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|accepted_name=Monolepis
|accepted_authority=Schrader
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Index Seminum (Göttingen)
|place=1830: 4. 1830
|year=1830
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Monolepis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Chenopodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Monolepis]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek monos, solitary, and lepis, scale, for the typically solitary sepal
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 261
|treatment_page=page 300
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism duration;whole_organism reproduction;whole_organism pubescence;whole_organism pubescence;whole_organism growth form"><b>Herbs,</b> annual, polygamous, ± farinose or glabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem orientation;stem orientation;stem architecture;stem architecture;stem texture"><b>Stems </b>arising from base, prostrate to ascending, not jointed, not armed, not fleshy;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="ultimate branch shape">ultimate branches not filiform.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf arrangement;leaf texture"><b>Leaves </b>alternate, succulent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade shape;base shape;base shape;margin architecture or shape;tooth quantity;apex shape">blade triangular-lanceolate to oblanceolate or spatulate, base narrowly attenuate to cuneate, unlobed to hastate, margins sometimes with few teeth distally or completely entire, apex obtuse to rounded.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="glomerule architecture"><b>Inflorescences </b>1–many-flowered glomerules in leaf-axils.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="flower reproduction;flower architecture"><b>Flowers </b>bisexual or pistillate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="perianth segment quantity;perianth segment presence;perianth segment shape;perianth segment coloration">perianth segment usually 1 (2–3 in central flowers) or absent, bractlike, greenish;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="stamen atypical quantity;stamen quantity;stamen presence">stamens 1 (–2) or absent (in pistillate flowers);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="ovary position">ovary superior;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="">stigmas 2, connate proximally.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="stigma quantity;stigma fusion;utricle shape"><b>Fruiting </b>structures somewhat flattened utricles;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="pericarp architecture or fragility">pericarp loose when dry.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="seed orientation;seed shape"><b>Seeds </b>vertical, lenticular;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="seed-coat coloration;seed-coat architecture or pubescence or relief">seed-coat brown to black, smooth;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="embryo shape">embryo annular;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="">perisperm copious.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="perisperm quantity;x chromosome quantity">x = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Temperate regions of w North America;c and ne Asia;s South America
|discussion=<p>Species 5 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves, at least some of them, hastately lobed; utricle 1.1-1.5 mm; pericarp whitish, cellular reticulate
|[[Monolepis nuttalliana|Monolepis nuttalliana]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves unlobed; utricle 0.5-0.7 mm; pericarp pale brown, turning black, tuberculate-papil- lose
|[[Monolepis spathulata|Monolepis spathulata]]
|}
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name=Monolepis
|author=Noel H. Holmgren
|authority=Schrader
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|distribution=Temperate regions of w North America;c and ne Asia;s South America
|reference=None
|publication title=Index Seminum (Göttingen)
|publication year=1830
|special status=
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|genus=Monolepis
|apex shape=obtuse;rounded
|base shape=narrowly attenuate;cuneate unlobed
|blade shape=triangular-lanceolate;oblanceolate or spatulate
|embryo shape=annular
|flower architecture=pistillate
|flower reproduction=bisexual
|glomerule architecture=1-many-flowered
|leaf arrangement=alternate
|leaf texture=succulent
|margin architecture or shape=entire
|ovary position=superior
|perianth segment coloration=greenish
|perianth segment presence=absent
|perianth segment quantity=1
|perianth segment shape=bractlike
|pericarp architecture or fragility=loose
|perisperm quantity=copious
|seed orientation=vertical
|seed shape=lenticular
|seed-coat architecture or pubescence or relief=smooth
|seed-coat coloration=brown;black
|stamen atypical quantity=1;2
|stamen presence=absent
|stamen quantity=1
|stem architecture=not armed;not jointed
|stem orientation=prostrate;ascending
|stem texture=not fleshy
|stigma fusion=connate
|stigma quantity=2
|tooth quantity=few
|ultimate branch shape=not filiform
|utricle shape=flattened
|whole_organism duration=annual
|whole_organism growth form=herb
|whole_organism pubescence=glabrous;farinose
|whole_organism reproduction=polygamous
|x chromosome quantity=9
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