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|accepted_name=Edgeworthia
|accepted_authority=Meisner
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Denkschr. Königl.-Baier. Ges. Regensburg
|place=3: 280. 1841
|year=1841
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Thymelaeaceae;Edgeworthia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Thymelaeaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Edgeworthia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Michael Pakenham Edgeworth, 1812–1881 Irish botanist and British civil servant in Bengal
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 381
|treatment_page=page 385
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> deciduous, to 3.5 m. <b>Stems</b> erect, ternately branched, not jointed, thick, sericeous, glabrescent. <b>Leaves</b> usually clustered distally, petiolate; blade lanceolate to oblong, surfaces glabrescent. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, capitate, often drooping, pedunculate; bracts absent. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium tubular, often curved; calyx 4-lobed, lobes spreading; petals absent; stamens 8, included, adnate to hypanthium; style included, linear; stigma clavate. <b>Fruits</b> drupaceous, brown, dry to leathery, enclosed at base by persistent hypanthium.</span><!--

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|distribution=Asia (w China;Himalaya);cultivated in warm;temperate regions.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 4 (1 in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=duncan1972a
|text=Duncan, W. H. and M. Mellinger. 1972. Edgeworthia (Thymelaeaceae) new to the Western Hemisphere. Rhodora 74: 436–439.
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name=Edgeworthia
|author=Lorin I. Nevling Jr.;Kerry Barringer
|authority=Meisner
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Thymelaeaceae
|distribution=Asia (w China;Himalaya);cultivated in warm;temperate regions.
|introduced=true
|reference=duncan1972a
|publication title=Denkschr. Königl.-Baier. Ges. Regensburg
|publication year=1841
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Edgeworthia
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