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|accepted_name=Zenobia
|accepted_authority=D. Don
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Edinburgh New Philos. J.
|place=17: 158. 1834 ,
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae;Zenobia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ericaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Zenobia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Zenobia, third-century queen of Palmyra, a city-state in Syria
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 376, 496, 504
|treatment_page=page 506
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> (glabrous, often glaucous). <b>Stems</b> erect, twigs glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous to semipersistent; blade elliptic to elliptic-ovate or ovate, coriaceous, margins irregularly and shallowly serrulate-crenulate or entire, plane, surfaces finely hairy, glabrescent; venation reticulodromous or brochidodromous. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary racemes of (2–)5–12-flowered corymbs, or solitary flowers, borne on leafless stems. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 5, distinct, ovate to ovate-deltate; petals 5, connate ca. 3/4 their lengths, white, corolla broadly campanulate, lobes much shorter than tube; stamens 10, included; filaments straight, flattened, dilated proximally, glabrous, without spurs; anthers with 4 awns, dehiscent by oblong pores, (disintegration tissue present in connective); pistil 5-carpellate; ovary 5-locular; stigma truncate. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, 5-valved, depressed-globose, dry. <b>Seeds</b> 40–200, ovoid; testa smooth. <b>x</b> = 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=se United States.
|discussion=<p>Species 1: se United States.</p><!--
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=dorr1981a
|text=Dorr, L. J. 1981. The pollination ecology of Zenobia (Ericaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 68: 1325–1332.
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|id=pollard1895a
|text=Pollard, C. L. 1895. The genus Zenobia Don. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 231–232.
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name=Zenobia
|author=Laurence J. Dorr
|authority=D. Don
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ericaceae
|distribution=se United States.
|reference=dorr1981a;pollard1895a
|publication title=Edinburgh New Philos. J.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae
|genus=Zenobia
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