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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Monolepis
|accepted_authority=Schrader
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Index Seminum (Göttingen)
|place=1830: 4. 1830
|year=1830
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Monolepis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Chenopodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Monolepis]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek monos, solitary, and lepis, scale, for the typically solitary sepal
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 261
|treatment_page=page 300
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, polygamous, ± farinose or glabrous. <b>Stems</b> arising from base, prostrate to ascending, not jointed, not armed, not fleshy; ultimate branches not filiform. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, succulent; blade triangular-lanceolate to oblanceolate or spatulate, base narrowly attenuate to cuneate, unlobed to hastate, margins sometimes with few teeth distally or completely entire, apex obtuse to rounded. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1–many-flowered glomerules in leaf axils. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual or pistillate; perianth segment usually 1 (2–3 in central flowers) or absent, bractlike, greenish; stamens 1(–2) or absent (in pistillate flowers); ovary superior; stigmas 2, connate proximally. <b>Fruiting</b> structures somewhat flattened utricles; pericarp loose when dry. <b>Seeds</b> vertical, lenticular; seed coat brown to black, smooth; embryo annular; perisperm copious. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Temperate regions of w North America;c and ne Asia;s South America.
|discussion=<p>Species 5 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves, at least some of them, hastately lobed; utricle 1.1-1.5 mm; pericarp whitish, cellular reticulate
|[[Monolepis nuttalliana|Monolepis nuttalliana]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves unlobed; utricle 0.5-0.7 mm; pericarp pale brown, turning black, tuberculate-papil- lose
|[[Monolepis spathulata|Monolepis spathulata]]
|}
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name=Monolepis
|author=Noel H. Holmgren
|authority=Schrader
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|distribution=Temperate regions of w North America;c and ne Asia;s South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Index Seminum (Göttingen)
|publication year=1830
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V4/V4_574.xml
|genus=Monolepis
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