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|accepted_name=Hollisteria
|accepted_authority=S. Watson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=14: 296. 1879
|year=1879
}}
|common_names=False spikeflower
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eriogonum sect. Hollisteria
|authority=(S. Watson) Roberty & Vautier
|rank=section
}}
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae;Hollisteria
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygonaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Hollisteria]]</div></div>
|etymology=For William Welles Hollister, 1818–1886, California rancher
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 219, 445
|treatment_page=page 444
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual; taproots slender. <b>Stems</b> arising directly from the root, spreading to decumbent or prostrate, solid, not fistulose or disarticulating into ringlike segments, tomentose. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous (basal) or persistent (cauline), basal and cauline, alternate; petiole indistinct at proximal node, absent at distal nodes; blade oblanceolate (proximal) or elliptic to ovate (distal), margins entire, apex mucronate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, cymose, distally uniparous due to suppression of secondaries, each node bearing a flower; branches dichotomous, not brittle or disarticulating into segments, round, tomentose; bracts 3, typically situated at base of a cauline leaf and hidden by it, connate basally, linear to linear-lanceolate, somewhat foliaceous or scalelike, awned, thinly pubescent to densely tomentose. <b>Peduncles</b> absent. <b>Involucral</b> bracts obvious, in whorl of 3(–4), linear to lanceolate, awned. <b>Flowers</b> 1 per involucral cluster, sessile or pedicellate; perianth yellowish, broadly campanulate when open, tubular when closed, densely tomentose abaxially; tepals 6, connate proximally, monomorphic, mucronate apically; stamens 6 or 9; filaments basally adnate, glabrous; anthers yellow, oval to oblong. <b>Achenes</b> included, brown to black, not winged, 3-gonous, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b>: embryo curved. <b>x</b> = 21.</span><!--

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|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p><!--
--><p><i>Hollisteria</i> is the only member of subtribe Hollisteriineae H. Gross. This view differs from that presented by J. L. Reveal and C. B. Hardham (1989), who included <i>Chorizanthe</i> and its relatives also in Hollisteriineae. In an unpublished thesis, Adrienne Russell (pers. comm.) has suggested that <i>Hollisteria</i> is more closely related to <i>Eriogonum</i> than to <i>Chorizanthe</i>. Reveal and Hardham noted that the transfer of <i>Hollisteria</i> from a place near <i>Eriogonum</i> to a position with <i>Chorizanthe</i> was done with “some trepidation.” There is no obvious place within <i>Eriogonum </i>subg.<i> Ganysma</i> to suggest as a point of origin for <i>Hollisteria</i>. Then, too, there is no place within <i>Chorizanthe</i> that one can comfortably suggest as such a point. By referring <i>Hollisteria</i> to its own subtribe, one acknowledges a relationship to <i>Eriogonum</i>, and recognizes that the single flower and base chromosome number of x = 21 are conditions unknown in the whole of Eriogonineae, although both features are common in Chorizanthineae.</p>
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name=Hollisteria
|author=James L. Reveal
|authority=S. Watson
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=Eriogonum sect. Hollisteria
|basionyms=
|family=Polygonaceae
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1879
|special status=
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|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
|genus=Hollisteria
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