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|accepted_name=Whipplea
|accepted_authority=Torrey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in War Department [U.S.], Pacif. Railr. Rep.
|place=4(5): 90, plate 7. 1857
|year=1857
}}
|common_names=Modesty;yerba de silva
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Hydrangeaceae;Whipplea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Hydrangeaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Whipplea]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Lieutenant Amiel Weeks Whipple, 1816–1863, commander of Pacific Railroad Expedition 1853 & 1854
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 462, 463
|treatment_page=page 469
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs.</b> Stems prostrate to decumbent. <b>Bark</b> exfoliating in grayish or grayish brownish strips. <b>Branches</b> erect to decumbent; twigs with simple trichomes. <b>Leaves</b> marcescent, opposite; petiole absent or present; blade elliptic, ovate, or ovate-elliptic, herbaceous, margins entire or shallowly crenate-serrate, plane; venation acrodromous. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, racemes or racemose cymes, 4–12-flowered; peduncle present. <b>Pedicels</b> present. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; perianth and androecium nearly hypogynous; hypanthium adnate to ovary proximally, free distally, hemispheric, weakly 9–11-ribbed in fruit; sepals eventually deciduous, (4–)5–6, erect, narrowly oblong or oblong-lanceolate, appressed-pubescent abaxially; petals 4–6, valvate, reflexed, white, obovate or oblong, base clawed, surfaces glabrous; stamens 8–12; filaments distinct, dorsiventrally flattened, abruptly tapered medially, apex not 2-lobed; anthers elliptic; pistil (2–)4–5-carpellate, ovary slightly inferior, (3–)4–5-locular; placentation axile; styles caducous, (3–)4–5, distinct or connate basally. <b>Capsules</b> depressed-spheric, cartilaginous, dehiscence basipetally septicidal, carpels separating entirely. <b>Seeds</b> 1 per locule, brown or reddish brown, ellipsoid, trigonous.</span><!--

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|distribution=w United States.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
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name=Whipplea
|author=Ronald L. McGregor†
|authority=Torrey
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Hydrangeaceae
|distribution=w United States.
|reference=None
|publication title=in War Department [U.S.], Pacif. Railr. Rep.
|publication year=1857
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Whipplea
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