View source for Leucothoë fontanesiana

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|accepted_name=Leucothoë fontanesiana
|accepted_authority=(Steudel) Sleumer
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
|place=78: 438. 1959 ,
}}
|common_names=Mountain dog-laurel or dog-hobble;switch-ivy
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Andromeda fontanesiana
|authority=Steudel
|publication_title=Nomencl. Bot. ed.
|publication_place=2, 1: 88. 1840,
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Leucothoë axillaris var. editorum
|authority=(Fernald & B. G. Schubert) H. E. Ahles
}}
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae;Leucothoë;Leucothoë fontanesiana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ericaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Leucothoë]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Leucothoë fontanesiana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 509
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>1–2 m, branches spreading. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 10–15 mm; blade oblong, lanceolate, oblanceolate, or elliptic, 3–8 cm, margins entire or spinulose-serrulate, apex acute to long-acuminate, abaxial surface sparsely pilose. <b>Inflorescences</b> fascicled or solitary, sessile, dense, 20–60-flowered, 4–10 cm; bracts ± persistent, ovate-deltate, 1.7–2.2 mm. <b>Pedicels</b> 2–2.5 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals whitish, lanceolate-ovate, 1.7–2 mm, apex acute or subacute; corolla cylindric, 5–7 mm; filaments papillate (sometimes also spreading-hairy); anthers 1.2–1.5 mm, with 2 awns, thecae divergent distally; ovary glabrous. <b>Capsules</b> 5–6 mm wide. <b>Seeds</b> ellipsoid or oblong; testa firm, reticulate. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering mid spring.
|habitat=Woods along mountain streams, mountain ravines, moist slopes, often associated with Rhododendron maximum
|elevation=200-2000 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ga.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.
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|references=
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name=Leucothoë fontanesiana
|author=
|authority=(Steudel) Sleumer
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Leucothoë axillaris var. editorum
|basionyms=Andromeda fontanesiana
|family=Ericaceae
|phenology=Flowering mid spring.
|habitat=Woods along mountain streams, mountain ravines, moist slopes, often associated with Rhododendron maximum
|elevation=200-2000 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ga.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae
|genus=Leucothoë
|species=Leucothoë fontanesiana
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