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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Lyonia
|accepted_authority=Nuttall
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|place=1: 266. 1818, name conserved ,
}}
|common_names=Maleberry;staggerbush
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae;Lyonia
|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>[[Lyonia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For John Lyon, 1765–1814, Scottish-born, early American botanist and explorer of southern Appalachians
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 372, 376, 497, 507
|treatment_page=page 500
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, (sometimes with woody burl, resprouting after fire). <b>Stems</b> erect to arching; twigs hairy, sometimes glabrescent (sometimes also lepidote). <b>Leaves</b> deciduous or persistent; blade elliptic, obovate, or ovate, membranous to coriaceous, margins entire, undulate, or serrulate [irregularly serrate], plane or revolute, surfaces multicellular, peltate-scaled or short-stalked stipitate-glandular-hairy, often unicellular-hairy on major veins or abaxial surface; venation brochidodromous (or reticulodromous). <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary fascicles, panicles, or racemes, (2–)5–8(–12)-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary, (produced just before flowering). <b>Pedicels</b>: bracteoles 2, at or near base. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals usually [4–]5[–8], slightly connate, ovate-deltate to lanceolate; petals usually [4–]5[–8], connate nearly their entire lengths, white to red, corolla cylindric to urceolate, lobes much shorter than tube, (sparsely stipitate-glandular-hairy or peltate-scaled); stamens usually [8–]10[–16], included; filaments geniculate, flattened, roughened or hairy, with or without spurs; anthers without awns, dehiscent by elliptic pores; pistil usually [4–]5[–8]-carpellate; ovary [4–]5[–8]-locular; (style slightly longer than stamens); stigma capitate-truncate. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, globose to ovoid or ellipsoid, dry, (with [4–]5[–8] pale, decidedly thickened, whitish sutures). <b>Seeds</b> ca. 100–300, ellipsoidal, narrowly oblong, obovoid to angular-obovoid or narrowly conic, (sometimes tailed); testa cells elongate. <b>x</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|distribution=e United States;Mexico;West Indies;e Asia.
|discussion=<p>Arsenococcus Small; Desmothamnus Small; Neopieris Britton</p><!--
--><p>Species 36 (5 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=judd1981a
|text=Judd, W. S. 1981. A monograph of Lyonia (Ericaceae). J. Arnold Arbor. 62: 63–209, 315–436.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=judd1995b
|text=Judd, W. S. 1995. Lyonia. In: Organization for Flora Neotropica. 1968+. Flora Neotropica. 98+ nos. New York. No. 66, pp. 222–294.
}}
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Abaxial surface of leaf blades, pedicels, and calyx lepidote
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Abaxial surface of leaf blades, pedicels, and calyx nearly glabrous or hairy, not lepidote
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Ultimate branchlets spreading, flowers nearly always restricted to previous year’s branches; leaves not conspicuously reduced toward branch tips, blade margins usually revolute distally, sometimes strongly so, major veins usually depressed; shrubs or trees to 6(-12) m.
|[[Lyonia ferruginea|Lyonia ferruginea]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Ultimate branchlets rigidly ascending, flowers frequent on current year’s branchlets (some flowers also borne on branches of previous year); leaves conspicuously reduced toward branch tips, blade margins at most slightly revolute distally, major veins not depressed; shrubs to 1.5(-3) m.
|[[Lyonia fruticosa|Lyonia fruticosa]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaf blades scattered, multicellular long-headed-hairy abaxially, margins serrulate; corollas urceolate, 2-4(-4.5) mm; calyx lobes 0.5-1.5 mm.
|[[Lyonia ligustrina|Lyonia ligustrina]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaf blades scattered, multicellular short-headed-hairy abaxially, margins entire; corollas cylindric, 5-14 mm; calyx lobes 2-9.5 mm
|[[#key-0-4| > 4]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Leaves persistent, blade rigidly coriaceous, intramarginal vein present; corollas usually pink, sometimes red or white, 2-5 mm wide, base swollen; filaments roughened; capsules ovoid to ovoid-globose
|[[Lyonia lucida|Lyonia lucida]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Leaves deciduous, blade membranous, intramarginal vein absent; corollas usually white, rarely pink, 4.5-9 mm wide, base not swollen; filaments long-hairy, especially near base; capsules ovoid.
|[[Lyonia mariana|Lyonia mariana]]
|}
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name=Lyonia
|author=Walter S. Judd
|authority=Nuttall
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ericaceae
|distribution=e United States;Mexico;West Indies;e Asia.
|reference=judd1981a;judd1995b
|publication title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_976.xml
|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae
|genus=Lyonia
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