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You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |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 }}<!-- --><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><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |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= }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-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]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: 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= |source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V4/V4_574.xml |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 }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Chenopodiaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Chenopodiaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Monolepis.