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|accepted_name=Whipplea
|accepted_authority=Torrey in War Department [U.S.]
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=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-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism growth form"><b>Subshrubs.</b></span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem growth form or orientation"><b>Stems </b>prostrate to decumbent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="bark relief;strip coloration;strip coloration"><b>Bark </b>exfoliating in grayish or grayish brownish strips.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="branch orientation"><b>Branches </b>erect to decumbent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="trichome architecture">twigs with simple trichomes.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="leaf condition;leaf arrangement"><b>Leaves </b>marcescent, opposite;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="petiole presence;petiole presence">petiole absent or present;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="blade shape;blade shape;blade shape;blade shape;blade shape;blade growth form or texture">blade elliptic, ovate, or ovate-elliptic, herbaceous, margins entire or shallowly crenate-serrate, plane;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="margin architecture or shape;margin architecture or shape;margin shape;margin architecture">venation acrodromous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="inflorescence position or structure subtype;raceme architecture;cyme arrangement;cyme architecture"><b>Inflorescences </b>terminal, racemes or racemose cymes, 4–12-flowered;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="peduncle presence">peduncle present.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="pedicel presence"><b>Pedicels </b>present.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="flower reproduction"><b>Flowers </b>bisexual;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="perianth position;androecium position">perianth and androecium nearly hypogynous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="hypanthium fusion;hypanthium fusion;hypanthium shape;hypanthium architecture or shape">hypanthium adnate to ovary proximally, free distally, hemispheric, weakly 9–11-ribbed in fruit;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="sepal duration;sepal atypical quantity;sepal quantity;sepal orientation;sepal shape;sepal shape;sepal pubescence">sepals eventually deciduous, (4–) 5–6, erect, narrowly oblong or oblong-lanceolate, appressed-pubescent abaxially;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="petal quantity;petal arrangement or dehiscence;petal orientation;petal coloration;petal shape;petal shape;base shape;surface pubescence">petals 4–6, valvate, reflexed, white, obovate or oblong, base clawed, surfaces glabrous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="stamen quantity">stamens 8–12;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties="all fusion;all shape;all shape;apex shape">filaments distinct, dorsiventrally flattened, abruptly tapered medially, apex not 2-lobed;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s19" data-properties="anther arrangement or shape">anthers elliptic;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s20" data-properties="pistil architecture">pistil (2–) 4–5-carpellate, ovary slightly inferior, (3–) 4–5-locular;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s21" data-properties="ovary position;ovary architecture or structure in adjective form;ovary placentation">placentation axile;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s22" data-properties="style duration;style atypical quantity;style quantity;style fusion;style fusion">styles caducous, (3–) 4–5, distinct or connate basally.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s23" data-properties="capsule shape;capsule pubescence or texture;capsule dehiscence;carpel arrangement"><b>Capsules </b>depressed-spheric, cartilaginous, dehiscence basipetally septicidal, carpels separating entirely.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s24" data-properties="seed quantity;seed coloration;seed coloration;seed shape;seed shape"><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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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Whipplea
|author=Ronald L. McGregor†
|authority=Torrey in War Department [U.S.]
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Hydrangeaceae
|distribution=w United States
|reference=None
|publication title=Pacif. Railr. Rep.
|publication year=1857
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V12/V12_1011.xml
|genus=Whipplea
|all fusion=distinct
|all shape=tapered;flattened
|androecium position=hypogynous
|anther arrangement or shape=elliptic
|apex shape=not 2-lobed
|bark relief=exfoliating
|base shape=clawed
|blade growth form or texture=herbaceous
|blade shape=ovate-elliptic;ovate;ovate-elliptic;ovate;elliptic
|branch orientation=erect;decumbent
|capsule dehiscence=septicidal
|capsule pubescence or texture=cartilaginous
|capsule shape=depressed-spheric
|carpel arrangement=separating
|cyme architecture=4-12-flowered
|cyme arrangement=racemose
|flower reproduction=bisexual
|hypanthium architecture or shape=9-11-ribbed
|hypanthium fusion=free;adnate
|hypanthium shape=hemispheric
|inflorescence position or structure subtype=terminal
|leaf arrangement=opposite
|leaf condition=marcescent
|margin architecture=acrodromous
|margin architecture or shape=crenate-serrate;entire
|margin shape=plane
|ovary architecture or structure in adjective form=(3-)4-5-locular
|ovary placentation=axile
|ovary position=inferior
|pedicel presence=absent
|peduncle presence=absent
|perianth position=hypogynous
|petal arrangement or dehiscence=valvate
|petal coloration=white
|petal orientation=reflexed
|petal quantity=4;6
|petal shape=oblong;obovate
|petiole presence=absent;absent
|pistil architecture=(2-)4-5-carpellate
|raceme architecture=4-12-flowered
|seed coloration=reddish-brown;brown
|seed quantity=1
|seed shape=trigonous;ellipsoid
|sepal atypical quantity=4;5
|sepal duration=deciduous
|sepal orientation=erect
|sepal pubescence=appressed-pubescent
|sepal quantity=5;6
|sepal shape=oblong-lanceolate;oblong
|stamen quantity=8;12
|stem growth form or orientation=prostrate;decumbent
|strip coloration=grayish brownish;grayish
|style atypical quantity=3;4
|style duration=caducous
|style fusion=connate;distinct
|style quantity=4;5
|surface pubescence=glabrous
|trichome architecture=simple
|whole_organism growth form=subshrub
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