''Oemleria'' is a small genus in the

rose family Rosaceae (), the rose family, is a family of flowering plants that includes 4,828 known species in 91 genera. The name is derived from the type genus ''Rosa''. The family includes herbs, shrubs, and trees. Most species are deciduous, but some ...

native to the

Pacific coast Pacific coast may be used to reference any coastline that borders the Pacific Ocean. Geography Americas North America Countries on the western side of North America have a Pacific coast as their western or south-western border. One of th ...

areas of North America. It includes one living species, '' Oemleria cerasiformis'' and one species described from Washington state fossils, '' Oemleria janhartfordae''. ''Oemleria'' forms the monophyletic tribe

Exochordeae Exochordeae is a tribe of the rose family, Rosaceae, belonging to the subfamily Amygdaloideae Amygdaloideae is a subfamily within the flowering plant family Rosaceae. It was formerly considered by some authors to be separate from Rosaceae, an ...

with the genera ''Exchorda'' and ''Prinsepia'', which is placed in the subfamily

Amygdaloideae Amygdaloideae is a subfamily within the flowering plant family Rosaceae. It was formerly considered by some authors to be separate from Rosaceae, and the family names Prunaceae and Amygdalaceae have been used. Reanalysis from 2007 has shown that ...

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Exochordeae Rosaceae genera {{Amygdaloideae-stub