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|accepted_name=Mecardonia
|accepted_authority=Ruiz & Pavon
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Peruv. Prodr.,
|place=95. 1794
|year=1794
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Herpestis
|authority=C. F. Gaertner
}}
|hierarchy=Plantaginaceae;Mecardonia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Plantaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mecardonia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Antoni de Meca-Caçador-Cardona i de Beatrin, 1726–1788, benefactor of Royal College of Surgery of Barcelona
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 15, 264, 270
|treatment_page=page 273
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial; caudex herbaceous or woody, herbage tending to dry black. <b>Stems</b> prostrate, ascending, erect, or spreading, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, opposite; petiole present; blade not fleshy, not leathery, margins weakly or sharply serrate. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, flowers solitary; bracts present. <b>Pedicels</b> present; bracteoles smaller than calyx lobes, not surrounding calyx of flowers they subtend. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; sepals 5, proximally connate, calyx bilaterally symmetric, campanulate, lobes ovate, outer lobes ± as wide as inner; corolla white or lemon yellow with purple or reddish veins in throat, bilaterally symmetric, weakly bilabiate, campanulate [salverform], tube base not spurred or gibbous, throat not densely pilose internally, lobes 5, abaxial 3, adaxial 2, abaxial lip projecting to spreading; stamens 4, medially or distally adnate to corolla, didynamous, filaments glabrous; staminode 0; ovary 2-locular, placentation axile; stigma 2-lobed. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, dehiscence septicidal, slightly loculicidal at apex. <b>Seeds</b> 40–80, black or brown, angled, wings absent. × = 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=c;e United States;Mexico;Central America;South America;introduced in Asia (India;Sri Lanka);Africa (Cameroon;Sierra Leone);Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 10 (2 in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=ahedor2007a
|text=Ahedor, A. R. 2007. Systematics of the Mecardonia acuminata (tribe Gratioleae, Plantaginaceae) Complex of Southern USA. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Oklahoma.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=ahedor2015a
|text=Ahedor, A. R. and W. J. Elisens. 2015. Morphological analyses of the Mecardonia acuminata (Plantaginaceae) species complex in the southeastern U.S.A. SouthE. Naturalist 14: 173–196.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=rossow1987a
|text=Rossow, R. A. 1987. Revisión del género Mecardonia. Candollea 42: 431–474.
}}
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Stems erect; leaf blade margins weakly serrate; corollas white with purple veins in throats, adaxial lobes connate 1/2–2/3 lengths; seeds: radial walls of reticulum smooth.
|[[Mecardonia acuminata|Mecardonia acuminata]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Stems spreading, prostrate, or ascending; leaf blade margins sharply serrate; corollas lemon yellow with reddish veins in throats, adaxial lobes connate nearly to apices; seeds: radial walls of reticulum mamillate.
|[[Mecardonia procumbens|Mecardonia procumbens]]
|}
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name=Mecardonia
|author=Adjoa Richardson Ahedor
|authority=Ruiz & Pavon
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=Herpestis
|basionyms=
|family=Plantaginaceae
|distribution=c;e United States;Mexico;Central America;South America;introduced in Asia (India;Sri Lanka);Africa (Cameroon;Sierra Leone);Australia.
|reference=ahedor2007a;ahedor2015a;rossow1987a
|publication title=Fl. Peruv. Prodr.,
|publication year=1794
|special status=
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|genus=Mecardonia
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