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|accepted_name=Monnina wrightii
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|place=5(6): 31. 1853
|year=1853
}}
|common_names=Blue pygmyflower
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Pteromonnina wrightii
|authority=(A. Gray) B. Eriksen
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Polygalaceae;Monnina;Monnina wrightii
|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 class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Monnina wrightii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 10
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>(2–)3–6(–7) dm. <b>Stems</b> branched distally, hairs incurved. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 1–2.5 mm; blade mostly lanceolate or narrowly ovate to elliptic, sometimes obovate proximally, 15–60 × 2–10 mm, base cuneate, apex usually acute to attenuate-acuminate, sometimes obtuse proximally. <b>Racemes</b> 2–20(–30) × 0.3–0.6 cm; peduncle to 6 cm; bracts narrowly lanceolate or ovate-subulate. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.4–0.5 mm, pubescent. <b>Cleistogamous</b> flowers usually present on much-reduced axillary branches, chasmogamous flowers sometimes absent, 1.5–2.1 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: non-wing sepals ovate to lanceolate, 1.2–1.8 mm; wings obovate, 1–2 mm wide; keel 1.5–3 mm. <b>Fruits</b> ovoid, subglobose, or subobovoid, 3–5 × 2.8–4 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 2–3 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering (mid–)late summer–fall.
|habitat=Igneous, limestone, gravelly, sandy, or silty loam soils, in dry to moist, open to shaded grasslands, shrublands, woodlands, disturbed areas.
|elevation=1200–2600 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Colima;Durango;Guanajuato;Jalisco;Michoacán;Nayarit;Sinaloa;Sonora;Zacatecas);South America.
|discussion=<p>Monnina wrightii is amphitropically disjunct in Argentina and Bolivia, with single collections each from Peru and Uruguay.</p>
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name=Monnina wrightii
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Pteromonnina wrightii
|basionyms=
|family=Polygalaceae
|phenology=Flowering (mid–)late summer–fall.
|habitat=Igneous, limestone, gravelly, sandy, or silty loam soils, in dry to moist, open to shaded grasslands, shrublands, woodlands, disturbed areas.
|elevation=1200–2600 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Colima;Durango;Guanajuato;Jalisco;Michoacán;Nayarit;Sinaloa;Sonora;Zacatecas);South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|publication year=1853
|special status=
|source xml=https://xjsachs2@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/1f4bf54ae2f7dbd5376c45b4fe1b388e15b53086/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V10/V10_459.xml
|genus=Monnina
|species=Monnina wrightii
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