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|accepted_name=Sageretia
|accepted_authority=Brongniart
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mém. Fam. Rhamnées,
|place=52, plate 2, fig. 2. 1826
|year=1826
}}
|common_names=Mock buckthorn
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rhamnaceae;Sageretia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rhamnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sageretia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Augustin Sageret, 1763–1851, French botanist
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 44, 45, 62
|treatment_page=page 64
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or woody vines [trees], arching, sprawling, drooping, or clambering [erect], tendrils absent, armed with thorns (sometimes not prominent); bud scales present. <b>Stems</b> not twining, hairy. <b>Leaves</b> persistent or tardily deciduous, present at flowering, usually opposite to subopposite, sometimes alternate distally; blade not gland-dotted; pinnately veined, secondary veins not strongly parallel [± parallel], tertiary veins reticulate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal and axillary, overtopping or extending beyond foliage, spikelike or spicate, paniclelike thyrses, [5–]30–120[–150]-flowered; peduncles and pedicels not fleshy in fruit. <b>Pedicels</b> usually absent, rarely present. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; hypanthium shallowly cupulate to hemispheric, 1–2 mm wide; sepals 5, erect, yellowish green, triangular, ± fleshy, keeled adaxially; petals 5, white to yellow, hooded, spatulate, short-clawed; nectary fleshy, cupulate, distally free from hypanthium; stamens 5; ovary superior, 2–3-locular; style 1. <b>Fruits</b> drupes; stones (2–)3, tardily dehiscent.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;se Asia.
|discussion=<p>Species 30–35 (3 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Most species of <i>Sageretia</i> are from southeast Asia, with 15 endemic to China (Chen Y. L. and C. Schirarend 2007). Four are native to the Americas (G. L. Nesom 1993h).</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Shrubs, densely and intricately branched; branches erect or spreading to arching or arcuate-decumbent, densely short-strigillose; leaf blades 0.5–2(–3) × 0.5–1(–2) cm, veins not prominently raised abaxially; inflorescence primary axes 0.5–1 cm, lateral branches 0(–2).
|[[Sageretia wrightii|Sageretia wrightii]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Shrubs or vines, loosely to compactly branched; branches often becoming sprawling, trailing, or climbing, tomentose or villous-tomentose, sometimes with understory of minute, erect, glandular hairs; leaf blades 1–4.5(–6) × 0.5–2.5 cm, veins prominently raised abaxially; inflorescence primary axes 2–15 cm, lateral branches 4–8.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blade apices acute to acuminate; inflorescence primary axes 5–15 cm.
|[[Sageretia minutiflora|Sageretia minutiflora]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blade apices acute to obtuse or rounded; inflorescence primary axes 2–5 cm.
|[[Sageretia thea|Sageretia thea]]
|}
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name=Sageretia
|author=Guy L. Nesom
|authority=Brongniart
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Rhamnaceae
|distribution=North America;Mexico;se Asia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Mém. Fam. Rhamnées,
|publication year=1826
|special status=
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|genus=Sageretia
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