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|accepted_name=Muntingia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 509. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 225. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Muntingiaceae;Muntingia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Muntingiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Muntingia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Abraham Munting, 1626 – 1683 Dutch botanist
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 185
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="blade shape;marginal tooth architecture or course;ovary architecture;hair shape"><b>Leaves:</b> blade lanceolate to lanceolate-linear, marginal teeth irregular, abaxial indument more ovary obscurely stipitate, subtended by ring of setiform hairs.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="berry coloration"><b>Berries </b>red [yellow].</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties=""><b>Seeds </b>yellowish, plumply lenticular.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="seed coloration;seed shape;x chromosome quantity">x = 15.</span><!--

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|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;also in Old World Tropics
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p><!--
--><p>Muntingia is widely grown in warm to hot climates for fruit, fiber, and firewood.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Muntingia
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Muntingiaceae
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;also in Old World Tropics
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V6/V6_335.xml
|genus=Muntingia
|berry coloration=red
|blade shape=lanceolate;lanceolate-linear
|hair shape=setiform
|marginal tooth architecture or course=irregular
|ovary architecture=stipitate
|seed coloration=yellowish
|seed shape=lenticular
|x chromosome quantity=15
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