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|accepted_name=Pityopus
|accepted_authority=Small
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl.
|place=29: 16. 1914 ,
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Monotropoideae;Pityopus
|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>[[Pityopus]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek pityos, pine, and pous, foot, alluding to habitat
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 373
|treatment_page=page 394
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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 or cymes, erect at emergence from soil, axis fleshy but not fibrous, usually not persistent after seed dispersal, yellowish to cream, 0.5–2 cm diam. proximal to proximalmost flower. <b>Pedicels</b> erect, elongate in fruit; bracteoles absent. <b>Flowers</b> radially symmetric, erect; sepals 4(–5), distinct, lateral pair clasping corolla, canoe-shaped, other pair appressed to corolla, flattened; petals 4(–5), distinct, yellowish to cream, without basal tubercles, (abaxial surfaces glabrate, adaxial surfaces densely hairy), corolla tubular-campanulate; intrastaminal nectary disc present; stamens 8, included; filaments ± uniformly slender, pubescent; anthers horseshoe-shaped, without awns, without tubules, dehiscent by 1 slit; pistil (4–)5-carpellate; ovary 1-locular; placentation intruded-parietal; style straight, stout; stigma umbilicate, subtended by ring of crowded hairs. <b>Fruits</b> baccate, erect, (fleshy), indehiscent, (axis fleshy). <b>Seeds</b> 25–100, ovoid, not winged.</span><!--

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|distribution=w United States.
|discussion=<p>Species 1: w United States.</p><!--
--><p>Species 1</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=copeland1935a
|text=Copeland, H. F. 1935. On the genus Pityopus. Madroño 3: 154–168.
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name=Pityopus
|author=Gary D. Wallace
|authority=Small
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ericaceae
|distribution=w United States.
|reference=copeland1935a
|publication title=in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Monotropoideae
|genus=Pityopus
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