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|accepted_name=Fendlera
|accepted_authority=Engelmann & A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|place=3(5): 77, plate 5. 1852
|year=1852
}}
|common_names=Fendler-bush
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Hydrangeaceae;Fendlera
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Hydrangeaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Fendlera]]</div></div>
|etymology=For August Fendler, 1813–1883, German-born plant collector in North and South America, early botanical explorer of southwestern United States
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 462, 463, 467
|treatment_page=page 466
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs.</b> Stems ascending or spreading. <b>Bark</b> exfoliating in grayish or reddish strings or strips, or sometimes not exfoliating. <b>Branches</b> erect or arching; twigs with simple and minutely branched trichomes. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous, opposite, sometimes clustered on short shoots; petiole present, relatively short; blade linear, elliptic, lanceolate, oblong, ovate, or falcate, herbaceous or coriaceous, margins entire, plane or strongly revolute; venation acrodromous, lateral veins sometimes obscure. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, flowers solitary; peduncle absent. <b>Pedicels</b> present. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; perianth and androecium nearly hypogynous; hypanthium completely adnate to ovary, turbinate, broadly campanulate, or hemispheric, weakly or strongly 4- or 8-ribbed in fruit; sepals persistent, 4, eventually erect or strongly recurved, usually triangular, sometimes ovate, glabrous or hairy; petals 4, imbricate, spreading, white, sometimes tinged pink or red, broadly spatulate, base clawed, surfaces finely pubescent; stamens 8; filaments distinct, dorsiventrally flattened, gradually tapered toward apex, apex 2-lobed, lobes prolonged beyond anthers; anthers oblong; pistil 4(–5)-carpellate, ovary to 1/2 inferior, 4(–5)-locular; placentation axile; styles persistent, 4(–5), distinct. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid-ellipsoid, ± cartilaginous, dehiscence basipetally septicidal to middle of fruit. <b>Seeds</b> (1–)2–4(–6) per locule, reddish brown, ellipsoid. <b>x</b> = 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=sw United States;n Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>A. J. Rehder (1920) found that the species of <i>Fendlera</i> show great uniformity in floral characters and may be distinguished easily by their leaves. N. H. Holmgren and P. K. Holmgren (1997) also reported that floral characters are remarkably uniform.</p><!--
--><p>B. L. Turner (2001) recognized five species of <i>Fendlera</i>, including four in the flora. In addition to the species recognized here, B. L. Turner also recognized <i>F. falcata</i> and F. wrightii in our area; as noted later, these are best included within <i>F. rupicola</i>. The fifth species of Turner is F. tamaulipana, a taxon from Tamaulipas, Mexico; this species is here included in <i>F. linearis</i>.</p><!--
--><p>Inflorescences of <i>Fendlera</i> have been described as solitary flowers or as clusters of two, three, or five flowers, racemes, or dichasial cymes. The inflorescence consists of a single flower terminating a leafy branch; these flower-bearing branches are sometimes aggregated. Frequently, the lateral branches are much-reduced and consist of a relatively short axis bearing two relatively small leaves and terminated by a flower. More rarely, the flowers appear nearly sessile in leaf axils, subtended by scales; this phenomenon is most frequent in <i>F. linearis</i>.</p><!--
--><p>As in some species of <i>Philadelphus</i>, the buds on the long shoots of <i>Fendlera</i> are hidden in pouches of tissue at the bases of the petioles.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=turner2001a
|text=Turner, B. L. 2001. Taxonomic revision of the genus Fendlera (Hydrangeaceae). Lundellia 4: 1–11.
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==Key==
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|1
|Leaf blades coriaceous, linear, 1.3–2 mm wide, margins strongly revolute, touching midvein, abaxial surface hidden, adaxial surface with scattered, appressed trichomes; midvein 0.5–1 mm wide, flat.
|[[Fendlera linearis|Fendlera linearis]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades herbaceous to coriaceous, usually elliptic, lanceolate, oblong, ovate, or falcate, rarely linear, 2–10 mm wide, margins plane to revolute, not touching midvein, abaxial surface visible, strigose, sometimes with understory of minute, finely branched trichomes, adaxial surface with appressed trichomes and/or short, erect trichomes; midvein 0.2–0.3 mm wide, raised.
|[[Fendlera rupicola|Fendlera rupicola]]
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name=Fendlera
|author=Ronald L. McGregor†; James Henrickson
|authority=Engelmann & A. Gray
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Hydrangeaceae
|distribution=sw United States;n Mexico.
|reference=turner2001a
|publication title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|publication year=1852
|special status=
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|genus=Fendlera
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