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botanizing: Tortuous Taxonomy of the Utah Little Fendlerbush (1736 words) |
 | Greene accepted that his Fendlera cymosa was the same kind of plant that Watson had earlier described Whipplea utahensis, but he didn’t accept that the plant from the Colorado Plateau could be in the same genus as the Pacific coastal Whipplea modesta. |
| In Greene’s mind Fendlera utahensis would now include the plant he had originally called Fendlera cymosa and this plant would be more closely related to the other known species of Fendlera (Fendlera rupicola), which as was also distributed in the southwestern U.S., than to Whipplea modesta. |
| Heller’s solution was to leave us with a genus Fendlera that had the single species, Fendlera rupicola, with a genus Whipplea that had a single species, Whipplea modesta, and to make a new genus for the plant from the Colorado Plateau. |
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