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|accepted_name=Moneses
|accepted_authority=Salisbury ex Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl.
|place=2: 396, 403. 1822.
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|common_names=Woodnymph;single delight;one-flowered wintergreen;monésès uniflore
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Monotropoideae;Moneses
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ericaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Ericaceae subfam. Monotropoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Moneses]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek monos, one, single, and hesis, delight, alluding to attractive, solitary flower
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 374, 378
|treatment_page=page 384
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> chlorophyllous, autotrophic. <b>Stems</b> erect, glabrous or papillose distally. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, sometimes appearing basal, alternate or pseudoverticillate in 1–4 whorls; petiole present; blade not maculate, broadly elliptic to orbiculate, subcoriaceous, margins crenate-serrate to serrate, plane, surfaces glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> solitary flowers, not lax in bud or flower, erect in fruit; peduncular bracts present or absent. <b>Pedicels</b> absent. <b>Flowers</b> radially symmetric, spreading or nodding; sepals 5, connate proximally, often obscurely so, calyx lobes ovate to narrowly ovate; petals 5, distinct, creamy white, without basal tubercles, corolla rotate to broadly campanulate; intrastaminal nectary disc absent; stamens 10, included; filaments broad proximally, gradually narrowed medially, slender distally, glabrous; anthers oblong, without awns, with tubules, dehiscent by 2 round pores; pistil 5-carpellate; ovary imperfectly 5-locular; placentation intruded-parietal; style (exserted), straight, expanded distally; stigma 5-lobed, without subtending ring of hairs. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, erect, dehiscence loculicidal, no cobwebby tissue exposed by splitting valves at dehiscence. <b>Seeds</b> ca. 1000, fusiform, winged. <b>x</b> = 11, 12, 13, 16.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Eurasia;circumboreal.
|discussion=<p>Species 1: North America, Eurasia; circumboreal.</p><!--
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name=Moneses
|author=Craig C. Freeman
|authority=Salisbury ex Gray
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ericaceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=North America;Eurasia;circumboreal.
|reference=None
|publication title=Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Monotropoideae
|genus=Moneses
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