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|accepted_name=Allotropa
|accepted_authority=Torrey & A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in War Department [U.S.], Pacif. Railr. Rep.
|place=6(3): 81. 1858 ,
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Monotropoideae;Allotropa
|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>[[Allotropa]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek allos, other or different, and tropos, turn or direction, alluding to inflorescence
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 373
|treatment_page=page 391
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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, erect at emergence from soil, axis fleshy and fibrous, persistent after seed dispersal, white with red to maroon vertical stripes, 0.5–1 cm diam. proximal to proximalmost flower. <b>Pedicels</b> erect, somewhat elongated in fruit; bracteoles absent. <b>Flowers</b> radially symmetric, erect to spreading; sepals absent, rarely 2–5, distinct, linear to filiform; petals 5, distinct, white, without basal tubercles, (surfaces glabrous), corolla crateriform; intrastaminal nectary disc present; stamens 10, exserted; filaments terete, glabrous; anthers ovoid, without awns, without tubules, dehiscent by 2 oval slits; pistil 5-carpellate; ovary 5-locular; placentation axile; style straight, stout; stigma peltate, without subtending ring of hairs. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, erect, dehiscence basipetally loculicidal, no cobwebby tissue exposed by splitting valves at dehiscence. <b>Seeds</b> 100+, fusiform, mostly narrowly winged. <b>x</b> = 13.</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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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=copeland1938a
|text=Copeland, H. F. 1938. The structure of Allotropa. Madroño 4: 137–153.
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name=Allotropa
|author=Gary D. Wallace
|authority=Torrey & A. Gray
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ericaceae
|distribution=w North America.
|reference=copeland1938a
|publication title=in War Department [U.S.], Pacif. Railr. Rep.
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_738.xml
|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Monotropoideae
|genus=Allotropa
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