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|accepted_name=Monnina
|accepted_authority=Ruiz & Pavon
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syst. Veg. Fl. Peruv. Chil.
|place=1: 169. 1798
|year=1798
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Polygalaceae;Monnina
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygalaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Monnina]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Josephus Monninus (José Moñino y Redondo), eighteenth-century Spanish Count of Florida-Blanca, administrator, and patron of botany
|volume=Volume 10
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual [perennial], [shrubs, small trees, rarely lianescent], single-stemmed. <b>Stems</b> erect, sparsely pubescent. <b>Leaves</b> alternate; petiolate; uniform or dimorphic; blade surfaces pubescent. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, racemes; peduncle present; bracts deciduous. <b>Pedicels</b> present. <b>Flowers</b> greenish or cream, to blue-tinged in age or on drying, wings bluish purple [flowers dark blue to purple and keel distally yellow], chasmogamous and, sometimes, cleistogamous, (2–)2.5–3.5 mm; sepals deciduous, rarely subpersistent, glabrous; wings deciduous, rarely subpersistent, 1.5–3 mm, glabrous or proximally sparsely ciliate; keel entire, ± 3-lobed, glabrous; stamens 6[–8] in chasmogamous flowers, divided into 2 groups by central tuft of hairs, fewer in cleistogamous flowers; ovary 1-loculed [2-loculed], or appearing so. <b>Fruits</b> samaroid [drupes], indehiscent, margins winged, sparsely pubescent or glabrate. <b>Seeds</b> glabrous, not arillate.</span><!--

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|distribution=sw United States;Mexico;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 180 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Monnina
|authority=Ruiz & Pavon
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
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|family=Polygalaceae
|distribution=sw United States;Mexico;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syst. Veg. Fl. Peruv. Chil.
|publication year=1798
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|genus=Monnina
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