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|accepted_name=Meconella
|accepted_authority=Nuttall in J. Torrey & A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in J. Torrey & A. Gray, Fl. N. Amer.
|place=1: 64. 1838
|year=1838
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Papaveraceae;Meconella
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Papaveraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Meconella]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek mekon, poppy, and ella, diminutive
|volume=Volume 3
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, caulescent, glabrous or glabrate, from fibrous roots. <b>Stems</b> leafy, mostly at base, erect to decumbent, simple or branching. <b>Leaves</b>: basal rosulate, winged-petiolate; cauline opposite or whorled, subsessile or sessile; blades unlobed. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary or terminal, 1-flowered; bracts absent; bud globose, nodding. <b>Flowers</b>: receptacle sometimes expanded into small ring beneath calyx; sepals 3, with overlapping, loosely connivent flaps; petals 6; stamens 4-6 in 1 series or ca. 12 in 2 series; filaments usually dilated distally; pistil 3-carpellate; ovary 1-locular, linear-oblong; stigmas 3. <b>Capsules</b> erect, linear, greatly elongate at maturity and often spirally twisted, dehiscing apically by separation of valvelike carpels. <b>Seeds</b> few, black, shiny, aril absent. <b>x</b> = 8.</span><!--

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|distribution=Far w North America.
|discussion=<p>Species 3 (3 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Receptacle ± as long as broad, not expanded to ring beneath calyx; anthers linear-oblong, usually at least 1/2 length of filaments.
|[[Meconella denticulata|Meconella denticulata]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Receptacle shorter than broad, expanded to ring beneath calyx; anthers ovoid to globose, much shorter than filaments.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Stamens ca. 12, sometimes fewer in depauperate specimens, in 2 series, outer filaments shorter than inner.
|[[Meconella californica|Meconella californica]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Stamens 4–6, in 1 series, filaments all ± equal.
|[[Meconella oregana|Meconella oregana]]
|}
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name=Meconella
|author=Gary L. Hannan
|authority=Nuttall in J. Torrey & A. Gray
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Papaveraceae
|distribution=Far w North America.
|reference=None
|publication title=in J. Torrey & A. Gray, Fl. N. Amer.
|publication year=1838
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_80.xml
|genus=Meconella
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