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|accepted_name=Tellima
|accepted_authority=R. Brown
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in J. Franklin et al., Narr. Journey Polar Sea,
|place=765. 1823 ,
}}
|common_names=Fringecup
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Saxifragaceae;Tellima
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Saxifragaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Tellima]]</div></div>
|etymology=Anagram of generic name Mitella
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 45, 46, 77, 85
|treatment_page=page 76
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> not rhizomatous, not stoloniferous; caudex erect, scaly. <b>Flowering</b> stems erect, leafy, 40–90 cm, densely stipitate-glandular. <b>Leaves</b> in basal rosette and cauline; cauline leaves 2–3, alternate, relatively large, reduced distally; stipules present; petiole stipitate-glandular; blade orbiculate or ovate, shallowly 5–9-lobed, base cordate, ultimate margins serrate to crenate, apex acute or rounded, surfaces sparsely stipitate-glandular on veins abaxially, sparsely to moderately densely long stipitate-glandular or glandular-hispid adaxially; venation palmate. <b>Inflorescences</b> racemes, terminal from axillary buds in rosette, 14–30-flowered, bracteate. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium adnate to ovary in proximal 1/2, free 2–3 mm, green; sepals 5, greenish; petals 5, greenish white or cream to pinkish red (sometimes drying dark red); nectary tissue not seen or inconspicuous; stamens 10; filaments filiform; ovary 1/4 inferior, 1-locular; placentation parietal; styles 2; stigmas 2, (enlarged). <b>Capsules</b> 2-beaked. <b>Seeds</b> dark brown, ellipsoid, warty. <b>x</b> = 7.</span><!--

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|distribution=w North America.
|discussion=<p>Species 1: w North America.</p><!--
--><p>Based on ITS-1 and ITS-2 analysis by D. E. Soltis and R. K. Kuzoff (1995), <i>Tellima</i> is closest to <i>Lithophragma</i>.</p><!--
--><p>Species 1</p>
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name=Tellima
|author=Elizabeth Fortson Wells;Patrick E. Elvander†
|authority=R. Brown
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Saxifragaceae
|distribution=w North America.
|reference=None
|publication title=in J. Franklin et al., Narr. Journey Polar Sea,
|publication year=
|special status=
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|genus=Tellima
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