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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Mortonia
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|place=3(5): 34, plate 4. 1852
|year=1852
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Celastraceae;Mortonia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Celastraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mortonia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Samuel George Morton, 1799–1851, North American naturalist
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 112
|treatment_page=page 128
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs.</b> Branchlets terete, scabrous. <b>Leaves</b> persistent, alternate, crowded; stipules present; petiole essentially absent; blade margins entire; 1-veined. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, cymose panicles or racemes. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual, radially symmetric; perianth and androecium perigynous; hypanthium free from ovary; sepals 5, distinct; petals 5, white; nectary intrastaminal, usually lining hypanthium, fleshy; stamens 5, adnate to nectary margin; staminodes 0; pistil 5-carpellate; ovary superior, 5-locular, placentation axile; style 1; stigmas 5; ovules 2 per locule. <b>Fruits</b> nutlike (small, hard-walled, indehiscent), 1-locular, oblong to cylindric, apex beaked. <b>Seeds</b> 1 per fruit, oblong, not winged; aril absent.</span><!--

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|distribution=sw United States;Mexico;Central America.
|discussion=<p>Species 8–10 (4 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Mortonia</i> is poorly understood taxonomically.</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Keys==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blades ovate or broadly elliptic to suborbiculate, 5–16 × 4–12 mm, length 1.2–1.4 times width.
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaves 5–6 × 4–5 mm; fruits 3.5–4.5 mm.
|[[Mortonia scabrella|Mortonia scabrella]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaves 7–16 × 5–12 mm; fruits 5–7 mm.
|[[Mortonia utahensis|Mortonia utahensis]]
|}
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-1-1
|1
|Leaf blades linear-oblanceolate or oblanceolate, 15–25 mm, length 5 times width, glabrous, pliable, margins often thickened, not revolute.
|[[Mortonia greggii|Mortonia greggii]]
|-id=key-1-1
|1
|Leaf blades ovate, elliptic, oblong-elliptic, suborbiculate, or obovate, 3–16 mm, length 1.2–2.5 times length, usually scabridulous, rarely glabrous, rigid, margins not thickened, revolute.
|[[#key-1-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-1-2
|2
|Leaf blades oblong-elliptic to narrowly obovate, 3–5 × 1.5–2 mm, length 2–2.5 times width.
|[[Mortonia sempervirens|Mortonia sempervirens]]
|-id=key-1-2
|2
|Leaf blades ovate or broadly elliptic to suborbiculate, 5–16 × 4–12 mm, length 1.2–1.4 times width.
|[[#key-1-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-1-3
|3
|Leaves 5–6 × 4–5 mm; fruits 3.5–4.5 mm.
|[[Mortonia scabrella|Mortonia scabrella]]
|-id=key-1-3
|3
|Leaves 7–16 × 5–12 mm; fruits 5–7 mm.
|[[Mortonia utahensis|Mortonia utahensis]]
|}
</div></div><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Mortonia
|author=Jinshuang Ma;Geoffrey A. Levin
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Celastraceae
|distribution=sw United States;Mexico;Central America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|publication year=1852
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_412.xml
|genus=Mortonia
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