Flora of North America species comparison

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Elliottia

elliottia
Habit Shrubs or trees.
Stems

erect;

twigs glabrous.
Leaves

deciduous [persistent], alternate, sometimes seemingly whorled;

petiole present;

blade subcoriaceous, margins entire.
Inflorescences

terminal racemes, panicles, or cymes, 2–80-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary;

perulae absent.
Flowers

bisexual, radially symmetric;

sepals [3–]5, ± distinct;

petals 4–5, distinct or connate to 1/4 their lengths, corolla deciduous, rotate;

stamens 8(–10), exserted;

anthers without awns, dehiscent laterally;

ovary 5–6-locular;

style exserted;

stigma expanded, discoid.
Fruits

capsular, spheroidal or oblate-spheroidal, dehiscence ± septicidal.
Seeds

30–100, ovoid, flattened, not tailed, sometimes winged;

testa pitted.
x

= 11.

Elliottia
Distribution
from USDA
w North America; se North America; e Asia (Japan)
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Cladothamnus Bongard; Tripetaleia Siebold & Zuccarini

Species 4 (2 in the flora).

Although Cladothamnus, Elliottia, and Tripetaleia were long treated as distinct genera, B. A. Bohm et al. (1978) concluded that they should be merged in a single genus. This was followed by P. F. Stevens et al. (2004). The two species endemic to Japan are E. bracteata Bentham & Hooker f. and E. paniculata Bentham & Hooker f.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Key
1. Shrubs, 0.5-3 m; inflorescences solitary flowers or cymes; petals pinkish to copper colored.
E. pyroliflora
1. Shrubs or trees, (2-)3-5(-12) m; inflorescences racemose or paniculate; petals white.
E. racemosa
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 473. Author: Gordon C. Tucker.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Ericoideae
Subordinate taxa
E. pyroliflora, E. racemosa
Name authority Muhlenberg ex Elliott: Sketch Bot. S. Carolina 1: 448. 1817 ,
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