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|accepted_name=Napaea
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 686. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 307. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Napaea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malvaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Napaea]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek napaea, wood nymph, alluding to woodland habitat
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 216
|treatment_page=page 305
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial. <b>Stems</b> erect, unbranched below inflorescence, simple- and/or stellate-hairy. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules persistent, broadly lanceolate; blade ± reniform to orbiculate, palmately lobed, base truncate to cordate, margins coarsely toothed. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal panicles, bracteate; involucel absent. <b>Flowers</b> unisexual, staminate and pistillate on different plants (plants dioecious); calyx not accrescent, not inflated, lobes unribbed, triangular; corolla white; staminal column ± included; style 6–10-branched; stigmas introrsely decurrent, linear or filiform. <b>Fruits</b> schizocarpic, erect, not inflated; mericarps 6–10, reniform, 1-celled, apex apiculate (sometimes minutely so), indehiscent or tardily dehiscent. <b>Seeds</b> 1 per mericarp, glabrous. <b>x</b> = 15.</span><!--

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|distribution=nc United States.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p><!--
--><p>H. H. Iltis and S. Kawano (1964) suggested that <i>Napaea</i> may have originated as an allopolyploid.</p>
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name=Napaea
|author=John W. Thieret†
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|distribution=nc United States.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_553.xml
|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Napaea
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