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|accepted_name=Hemitomes
|accepted_authority=A. Gray in War Department [U.S.]
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in War Department [U.S.], Pacif. Railr. Rep.
|place=6(3): 80, plate 12. 1858 ,
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Monotropoideae;Hemitomes
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ericaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Ericaceae subfam. Monotropoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Hemitomes]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek hemitomias, half eunuch, alluding to presumed sterility of one anther sac
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 373
|treatment_page=page 395
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> achlorophyllous, heterotrophic. <b>Stems</b> absent. <b>Leaves</b> absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> racemes or cymes, erect at emergence from soil, axis fleshy but not fibrous, usually not persistent after seed dispersal, pink to cream, 1–4 cm diam. proximal to proximalmost flower. <b>Pedicels</b> erect, somewhat elongate in fruit; bracteoles absent. <b>Flowers</b> radially symmetric, erect; sepals absent or 2–4(–5), distinct, lateral pair clasping corolla, canoe-shaped, other pair appressed to corolla, flattened; petals 4(–5), connate, cream to pink, without basal tubercles, (abaxial surfaces glabrous, adaxial surfaces densely hairy), corolla tubular-campanulate; intrastaminal nectary disc present; stamens 8(–10), included; filaments ± uniformly slender, hairy; anthers elongate, without awns, without tubules, dehiscent by 2 elongate, gaping slits, sacs not connate; pistil 5-carpellate; ovary 1-locular; placentation intruded-parietal; style straight, stout; stigma umbilicate, subtended by ring of hairs. <b>Fruits</b> baccate, erect, (fleshy), indehiscent, (axis fleshy). <b>Seeds</b> 25–100, ovoid, not winged. <b>x</b> = 52.</span><!--

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|distribution=w North America.
|discussion=<p>Species 1: w North America.</p><!--
--><p>Species 1</p>
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name=Hemitomes
|author=Gary D. Wallace
|authority=A. Gray in War Department [U.S.]
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ericaceae
|distribution=w North America.
|reference=None
|publication title=in War Department [U.S.], Pacif. Railr. Rep.
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_747.xml
|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Monotropoideae
|genus=Hemitomes
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