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|accepted_name=Leucothoë
|accepted_authority=D. Don
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Edinburgh New Philos. J.
|place=17: 159. 1834,
}}
|common_names=Hobblebush;sweetbells;dog-laurel;fetterbush;dog-hobble
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae;Leucothoë
|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>
|etymology=Greek name for a princess of Babylon
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 371, 372, 376, 510
|treatment_page=page 508
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs.</b> Stems erect or spreading, glabrous or sparsely short-hairy, glabrescent; branches without silvery scales. <b>Leaves</b> persistent; blade oblong, lanceolate, oblanceolate, or elliptic, coriaceous, margins entire or spinulose-serrulate, plane, surfaces not glaucous, without silvery scales, glabrous or hairy abaxially; venation reticulodromous. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, fascicled or solitary racemes, (not leafy), 8–60-flowered, (produced on previous year’s wood); (bracteoles 2, medial or proximal, partly covering pedicel). <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 5, slightly connate, lanceolate-ovate to broadly ovate; petals 5, connate nearly their entire lengths, white, corolla cylindric to urceolate, lobes much shorter than tube; stamens 8(–10), included; filaments straight, flattened, glabrous or hairy, without spurs; anthers with or without 2 awns proximal to anther-filament junction, dehiscent through terminal pores; pistil 5-carpellate; ovary pseudo 10-locular; (style scarcely longer than stamens); stigma 5-lobed, capitate to peltate. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, subglobose, dry. <b>Seeds</b> ca. 60–120, ellipsoid, oblong, or angular, flattened or wedge-shaped; testa smooth and shiny, reticulate, or papillose. <b>x</b> = 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=e;w United States;e Asia.
|discussion=<p>Species 5 (3 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=ingram1961a
|text=Ingram, J. W. 1961. Studies in the cultivated Ericaceae, I. Leucothoë. Baileya 9: 57–66.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=ingram1979a
|text=Ingram, J. W. 1979. Leucothoë revisited (Ericaceae). Baileya 20: 141–145.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=melvin1981a
|text=Melvin, N. C. 1981. Additional comments on Leucothoë (Ericaceae). Baileya 21: 127–130.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=sleumer1959a
|text=Sleumer, H. 1959. Studien über die Gattung Leucothoë D. Don. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 78: 435–480.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Filaments glabrous; racemes fascicled; w United States.
|[[Leucothoe davisiae|Leucothoe davisiae]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Filaments spreading-hairy and/or papillate; racemes fascicled or solitary; se United States
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Sepals broadly ovate, apex obtuse or rounded; racemes 2-4(-5) cm.
|[[Leucothoe axillaris|Leucothoe axillaris]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Sepals lance-ovate, apex acute or subacute; racemes 4-10 cm.
|[[Leucothoe fontanesiana|Leucothoe fontanesiana]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Leucothoë
|author=Gordon C. Tucker
|authority=D. Don
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ericaceae
|distribution=e;w United States;e Asia.
|reference=ingram1961a;ingram1979a;melvin1981a;sleumer1959a
|publication title=Edinburgh New Philos. J.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae
|genus=Leucothoë
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