Zenobia

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Ericaceae

• Scientific Name

  Zenobia

• Description

  Genus Description - Fls 5-merous; cal saucer-shaped, the lobes valvate; cor campanulate, the broad, short lobes outcurved; stamens included; filaments slender; anthers lanceolate, dorsifixed, the pollen-sacs united throughout, each opening by a terminal pore and with 2 erect slender awns; ovary subglobose; style about equaling the cor-tube; stigma truncate; capsule subglobose, 5-lobed, loculicidal; seeds minutely rugose; shrubs with deciduous, veiny, crenate- serrate lvs and white or pink fls on long pedicels in umbelliform clusters from the nodes of a lfless terminal axis, forming an elongate panicle. Monospecific.