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|accepted_name=Oxydendrum
|accepted_authority=de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|place=7: 601. 1839 ,
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|common_names=Sourwood;sorrel-tree
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae;Oxydendrum
|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>[[Oxydendrum]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek oxys, sour, and dendron, tree, alluding to taste of twigs and leaves
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 372, 376, 497
|treatment_page=page 496
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees. <b>Stems</b> erect; twigs glabrous or puberulent. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous; blade elliptic-oblong to elliptic, ovate, or obovate, ± chartaceous, margins irregularly compound-serrate or serrulate, especially distally, or entire (sometimes fringed with elongate hairs, especially when juvenile or on stump sprouts), plane, surfaces multicellular elongate-hairy (hairs stout) on midvein (rarely also secondary veins) abaxially, sometimes such hairs also on midvein and lamina adaxially, or such hairs absent, and ± sparsely unicellular-hairy on both surfaces of midvein or such hairs absent; venation brochidodromous. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal panicles composed of arching-declinate racemes or secondary panicles, 15–50-flowered, (borne on shoots of current season). <b>Pedicels</b>: bracteoles 2, medial or distal. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 5, connate slightly to 1/2 their lengths, lanceolate; petals 5, connate ca. 3/4 their lengths, white, corolla urceolate to cylindric-urceolate, lobes much shorter than tube, (densely unicellular-hairy, hairs short to elongate, crisped to straight); stamens 10, slightly exserted; filaments straight, flat, hairy, without spurs; anthers without awns, dehiscent by slitlike pores, with white line of disintegration tissue on each lobe abaxially; pistil 5-carpellate; ovary 5-locular; stigma capitate-truncate. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, ovoid, (with very slightly thickened sutures), dry. <b>Seeds</b> 25–100, narrowly oblong, (tailed); testa cells elongate. <b>x</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|distribution=e United States.
|discussion=<p>Species 1: e United States.</p><!--
--><p><i>Oxydendrum</i> had been considered to be isolated from other genera of tribe Andromedeae Klotzsch (P. F. Stevens 1971; C. E. Wood Jr. 1961). Recent phylogenetic analyses (K. A. Kron et al. 2002) support those earlier views, placing the genus as the sister group of the clade including such genera as <i>Andromeda</i>, <i>Gaultheria</i>, <i>Lyonia</i>, and <i>Vaccinium</i>. <i>Oxydendrum</i> is now, therefore, assigned to its own tribe, Oxydendreae H. T. Cox.</p><!--
--><p>Species 1</p>
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name=Oxydendrum
|author=Walter S. Judd
|authority=de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ericaceae
|distribution=e United States.
|reference=None
|publication title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_969.xml
|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae
|genus=Oxydendrum
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