Fendlerella

Fendlerella
Flowers, Turtlehead Peak, southern Nevada
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Cornales
Family: Hydrangeaceae
Genus: Fendlerella
A.Heller
Species: F. utahensis
Binomial name
Fendlerella utahensis
(S. Wats) A.Heller

Fendlerella is a monotypic genus of shrubs in the Hydrangeaceae containing the single species Fendlerella utahensis. This plant is known as Utah fendlerella, yerba desierto, or sometimes as Utah fendlerbush (it having previously been included in the closely related genus Fendlera, the fendlerbushes).

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