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|accepted_name=Muehlenbeckia
|accepted_authority=Meisner
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Pl. Vasc. Gen.
|place=1: 316
}}{{Treatment/Publication
|place=2: 227. 1841
|year=1841
}}
|common_names=Wirevine
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae;Muehlenbeckia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygonaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Muehlenbeckia]]</div></div>
|etymology=for H. G. Muehlenbeck, 1798–1845, Swiss physician
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 216, 218, 479, 480
|treatment_page=page 485
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> vinelike, perennial; rhizomatous. <b>Stems</b> suberect, prostrate, or scandent, glabrous or puberulent, sometimes papillose. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous, cauline, alternate, usually petiolate; ocrea usually deciduous, sometimes persistent, chartaceous; petiole base articulated, extrafloral nectaries present; blade linear to orbiculate, panduriform, or triangular-lanceolate, margins entire or irregularly wavy. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal and axillary, spikelike, essentially not pedunculate. <b>Pedicels</b> prescent. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual and unisexual, with staminate, pistillate, or sometimes both sexes occurring with bisexual flowers on the same plant, 1–2(–5) per ocreate fascicle, base stipelike; perianth accrescent, white to greenish white, campanulate, glabrous; tepals 5, connate proximally, sepaloid, dimorphic, outer slightly larger than inner. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: stamens 8 (9); filaments distinct, adnate to base of perianth tube, glabrous; anthers yellow or pink to purple, ovate to elliptic; pistil rudimentary. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: tube white or reddish purple to black in fruit, becoming fleshy; stamens rudimentary; styles 3, spreading, connate proximally; stigmas fimbriate. <b>Achenes</b> completely or partly included in fleshy perianth, black or dark brown, unwinged, 3-gonous to subglobose, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b>: embryo straight. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=Central America;South America;Pacific Islands (New Zealand);Australia.
|discussion=<p>species 23 (2 in the flora)</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=brandbyge1992a
|text=Brandbyge, J. 1992. The genus Muehlenbeckia (Polygonaceae) in South and Central America. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 114: 349–416.
}}
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Tubes of pistillate flowers white in fruit; distal branches of stems brownish-puberulent; leaf blades ovate-oblong to suborbiculate or panduriform
|[[Muehlenbeckia complexa|Muehlenbeckia complexa]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Tubes of pistillate flowers reddish purple to black in fruit; distal branches of stems glabrous; leaf blades triangular-lanceolate
|[[Muehlenbeckia hastulata|Muehlenbeckia hastulata]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Muehlenbeckia
|author=Craig C. Freeman
|authority=Meisner
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Polygonaceae
|illustrator=Bee F. Gunn
|distribution=Central America;South America;Pacific Islands (New Zealand);Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=brandbyge1992a
|publication title=Pl. Vasc. Gen.;
|publication year=;1841
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_1011.xml
|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae
|genus=Muehlenbeckia
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