Fendlerella

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).

Fendlerella
Flowers, Turtlehead Peak, southern Nevada
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Cornales
Family: Hydrangeaceae
Subfamily: Hydrangeoideae
Tribe: Philadelpheae
Genus: Fendlerella
A.Heller
Species:
F. utahensis
Binomial name
Fendlerella utahensis

The species was named for Augustus Fendler in 1898.[1]

References

  1. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 1898, 626 (IK)


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