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|accepted_name=Comptonia
|accepted_authority=L'Héritier ex Aiton
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Hort. Kew.
|place=3: 334. 1789
|year=1789
}}
|common_names=Sweet-fern;comptonie
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Myricaceae;Comptonia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Myricaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Comptonia]]</div></div>
|etymology=for Henry Compton, amateur horticulturist and Bishop of London
|volume=Volume 3
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> fragrant. <b>Branches</b> spreading-ascending, terete, pubescent to glabate, glandular when young. <b>Leaves</b> mostly deciduous, occasionally persistent, ± deeply pinnatifid; stipules present, deciduous or ± persistent. <b>Leaf</b> blade linear-lanceolate, with 2-10 rounded to pointed lobes, membranous, glabrous or densely pubescent and glandular. <b>Inflorescences</b> cylindric; staminate eventually flexuous, pistillate globose-ovoid at maturity, appearing before leaves; bracts ovate or cordate, glabrous or variously pubescent. <b>Flowers</b> unisexual, staminate and pistillate usually on different plants, occasionally on same plants. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: stamens 3-8, shorter than subtending bract, filaments free or slightly fused. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: ovary subtended by persistent bract and 2 linear-subulate bracteoles at anthesis, bracteoles accrescent and developing 4-8 tertiary bracteoles (= scales of other authors), these longer than and concealing fruit; styles 2, elongate. <b>Fruits</b> oblong-ovoid, smooth (without protuberances), waxless. <b>x</b> = 8.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America.
|discussion=<p>Species 1 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Comptonia
|author=
|authority=L'Héritier ex Aiton
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Myricaceae
|distribution=North America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Hort. Kew.
|publication year=1789
|special status=
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|genus=Comptonia
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