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|accepted_name=Neviusia
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s.
|place=6: 374, plate 30. 1859
|year=1859
}}
|common_names=Snow-wreath
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae;Rosaceae tribe Kerrieae;Neviusia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rosaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Rosaceae tribe Kerrieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Neviusia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Reuben Denton Nevius, 1827 – 1913 clergyman and amateur botanist
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 386, 389
|treatment_page=page 387
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> 6–32 dm, ± strigose. <b>Stems</b> 1–6+, erect, slender; bark proximally grayish, distally reddish brown, ± exfoliating in strips near base, decurrently ridged; short shoots absent; unarmed; young stems reddish. <b>Leaves</b> winter-persistent, deciduous, cauline, alternate; stipules persistent, linear to awl-shaped, margins serrate; petiole present; blade bright green adaxially, ovate or ovate-lanceolate to cordate, 2–9 cm, membranous, margins flat, shallowly lobed and coarsely serrate or doubly serrate, abaxial surface subsericeous to strigose, adaxial sparsely strigose to subsericeous. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, 2–10-flowered, subumbellate corymbs; bracts absent; bracteoles present. <b>Pedicels</b> present. <b>Flowers</b> appearing as leaves expand, odorless, 2.5–4 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets 0; hypanthium flat, 1–3 mm diam., glabrous or glabrate; sepals 5, spreading to reflexed, elliptic to obovate or lanceolate, margins serrate (incised above middle); petals usually 0, rarely 1 or 2, white, oblanceolate; stamens 50–100+, equal to sepals (inner often shorter); torus inconspicuous; carpels 2–6, densely strigose, styles subapical, elongate, stigmas minute; ovule 1. <b>Fruits</b> aggregated achenes, 2–6, eccentrically ovoid, 3–4 mm, densely strigose; hypanthium persistent; sepals persistent, orientation in fruit unknown.</span><!--

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|distribution=w;se United States.
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (2 in the flora).</p>
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf margins doubly serrate, some distal leaves only finely serrate; sepals 5–9(–12) mm; petals 0; stamens 100+; styles 4.5–6 mm.
|[[Neviusia alabamensis|Neviusia alabamensis]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf margins shallowly lobed and coarsely serrate; sepals 3.5–6 mm; petals usually 0, rarely 1–2; stamens 50+; styles 3 mm.
|[[Neviusia cliftonii|Neviusia cliftonii]]
|}
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name=Neviusia
|author=Alice L. Heikens
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Rosaceae
|distribution=w;se United States.
|reference=None
|publication title=Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s.
|publication year=1859
|special status=Conservation concern;Endemic
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|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Kerrieae
|genus=Neviusia
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