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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Mitreola
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Opera Var.,
|place=214. 1758
|year=1758
}}
|common_names=Miterwort;hornpod
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cynoctonum
|authority=J. F. Gmelin
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Loganiaceae;Mitreola
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Loganiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mitreola]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek mitra, cap, and -la, diminutive, alluding to fruit shape
|volume=Volume 14
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>or subshrubs, annual [perennial]. <b>Stems</b> erect [creeping], unbranched or branched, glabrous [glabrate, scabrous, puberulent, or pilose]. <b>Leaves</b> sessile or petiolate; blade narrowly elliptic to elliptic, ovate, or suborbiculate, venation pinnate, surfaces sparsely appressed-hairy [pilose] or glabrous, scabrous or puberulent along margins and veins. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal or axillary, dichasial, 20–100-flowered, each flower subtended by 1 bracetole. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals distinct or shortly connate at base, green centrally with whitish edges, ovate, deltate, or oblong; corolla usually white, sometimes mauve [violet], drying purple, urceolate, throat pilose or with ring of hairs; ovary superior; stigmas knoblike, 2-lobed. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, green, often drying purple, 2-valved, 2-horned, dehiscent along medial line. <b>Seeds</b> gold to dark brown, ellipsoid, obliquely ellipsoid, or depressed-subglobose [fusiform], reticulate or smooth [warty]. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=c;se United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n South America;s Asia (n India;Malaysia [Borneo]);w Africa;Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar);n Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species 8–10 (3 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>A. J. M. Leeuwenberg (1974) and J. B. Nelson (1980) gave thorough accounts of the nomenclatural history of Mitreola and its synonymy.</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves petiolate or subsessile, blades 2–8 cm, base cuneate; inflorescences lax, flowers mostly shorter than internodes.
|[[Mitreola petiolata|Mitreola petiolata]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves subsessile or sessile, blades (0.8–)1.2–3.3 cm, base usually rounded, sometimes cuneate; inflorescences congested, flowers longer than internodes.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Capsule horns papillose-warty over inner and outer faces; seeds smooth; larger leaves 1.5–2 times as long as wide.
|[[Mitreola sessilifolia|Mitreola sessilifolia]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Capsule horns lightly tuberculate mostly over inner faces; seeds reticulate; larger leaves 4–5 times as long as wide.
|[[Mitreola angustifolia|Mitreola angustifolia]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Mitreola
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=Cynoctonum
|basionyms=
|family=Loganiaceae
|distribution=c;se United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n South America;s Asia (n India;Malaysia [Borneo]);w Africa;Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar);n Australia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Opera Var.,
|publication year=1758
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/master/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V14/V14_259.xml
|genus=Mitreola
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