Fendlerella
Fendlerella | |
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Flowers, , southern Nevada | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Cornales |
Family: | Hydrangeaceae |
Subfamily: | Hydrangeoideae |
Tribe: | |
Genus: | Fendlerella A.Heller |
Species: | F. utahensis
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Binomial name | |
Fendlerella utahensis |
Fendlerella is a monotypic genus of shrubs in the Hydrangeaceae containing the single species Fendlerella utahensis. This plant is known as Utah fendlerella, yerba desierto, or sometimes as Utah fendlerbush (it having previously been included in the closely related genus Fendlera, the fendlerbushes).
The species was named for Augustus Fendler in 1898.[1]
References[]
- ^ Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 1898, 626 (IK)
External links[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fendlerella utahensis. |
Categories:
- Hydrangeaceae
- Cornales genera
- Monotypic asterid genera
- Flora of Northwestern Mexico
- Flora of the Southwestern United States
- Taxa named by Amos Arthur Heller
- Asterid stubs