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|accepted_name=Mosiera
|accepted_authority=Small
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Man. S.E. Fl.,
|place=936, 1506, fig. [p. 937]. 1933
|year=1933
}}
|common_names=Stopper
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Myrtaceae;Mosiera
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Myrtaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mosiera]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Charles A. Mosier, 1871–1936, first superintendent of Royal Palm State Park, Florida’s first state park (now Everglades National Park)
|volume=Volume 10
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, glabrous or pubescent, hairs simple. <b>Leaves</b> usually subopposite or whorled, sometimes decussate; blade venation brochidodromous [hyphodromous]. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1- or 3(–5)-flowered, axillary, often solitary flowers, sometimes dichasia or racemes with 1–3(–5) decussate pairs of flowers. <b>Flowers</b> 4-merous, sessile or pedicellate; hypanthium obconic to campanulate; calyx lobes distinct in bud, usually erect in fruit; petals white; stamens [30–]76–120[–250]; connective usually with 1 terminal oil gland; ovary [1 or]2–4-locular; placentation axile [to parietal], placenta not prominent; ovules [3–]9–40 per locule. <b>Fruits</b> berries, dark purple, red, or black, ellipsoid to globose. <b>Seeds</b> 2–27, subreniform; seed coat smooth or leathery, surface cells isodiametric and not overlapping; embryo whitish, <i>C</i>-shaped, oily; cotyledons linear, reflexed, less than 1/4 length of embryo; hypocotyl as wide as or wider than cotyledons.</span><!--

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|distribution=Florida;Mexico;West Indies;Central America (Guatemala).
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 20 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Mosiera
|author=Andrew Salywon
|authority=Small
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Myrtaceae
|distribution=Florida;Mexico;West Indies;Central America (Guatemala).
|reference=None
|publication title=Man. S.E. Fl.,
|publication year=1933
|special status=
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|genus=Mosiera
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