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Ericaceae

(Family)

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Plants usually woody, or herbs, sometimes lacking chlorophyll. Leaves spiral, sometimes decussate, margin often toothed. Inflorescence racemose; bracteoles paired, basal. Flowers (4 or) 5-merous. Calyx imbricate. Corolla connate, imbricate. Stamens 10, sometimes with spurs or awns, dehiscing by pores, pollen in tetrads, rarely single. Ovary superior or inferior, placentation axile, rarely parietal, often many ovules per locule. Style ± as long as corolla, slender. Fruit a capsule or berry, rarely a drupe; calyx persistent.

About 125 genera and 4000 species: widely distributed in temperate and subarctic regions, also at high elevations in tropical regions; 22 genera and 826 species (524 endemic) in China.

The Monotropoideae are here included in the Ericaceae; previously in FRPS (56: 157 216. 1990), they were treated as the Pyrolaceae. Chiogenes, recorded from China in FRPS (57(3) : 69 71. 1991), is here included in Gaultheria. Over the last half century, the Empetraceae have usually been separated from, but closely associated with, the Ericaceae. In their ecology, leaf morphology and insertion, rusts, embryology, stamen anatomy, etc., they largely agree with that family. Molecular data place Empetrum and its relatives firmly within the Ericaceae, and in particular within the subfamily Ericoideae, in agreem ent with phytochemical and palynological data, and there they are best recognized as a separate tribe. There are distinctive features of the Empetreae that were responsible for their past familial status, e.g., reduced perianth with separate members, low ovule number, enlarged stigmas, etc. However, these are likely to be derived features associated with wind pollination. See Kron et al. (Bot. Rev. 68: 335 423. 2002) and the recent treatment of the Ericaceae by Stevens et al. (in Kubitzki, Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. 6: 145 194. 2004) .

Several genera and many species are ornamentals. Some fruits of Vaccinium in N China are sweet and edible, but of no particular value to humans. Some species of Chamaedaphne, Craibiodendron, Leucothoë, Lyonia, Pieris, and Rhododendron contain more or less toxic diterpenes, which are harmful to humans or domestic animals.[1]

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Taxonomy

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The Family Ericaceae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Genera

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Acantholimon

Shrublets, usually thorny, pulvinate, often subglobose, many-branched. Leaves borne on current year's branches, crowded, sessile, persistent on old branches after withering; spring leaves at base of current year's branches and similar or different from summer leaves; leaf blade linear, linear-needlelike, or linear subulate, usually very shallowly obdeltate to subcomplanate in cross section, apex usually pointed to awned. Inflorescences borne in axil of spring leaves at base of current year's branches, branched or unbranched; spikes pedunculate, with 2--8 spikelets, arranged in 2 rows, sometimes rachis undeveloped with spike or spikelets axillary; spikelets 1--5-flowered; bracts distinctly shorter than bractlet of first flower, margin membranous; first bractlet similar to bract, margin broadly membranous. Calyx funnelform or rarely subtubular; tube straight or occasionally basally oblique, inconspicuously herbaceous along ribs and scarious between ribs; limb purple, pink, or white, broad, scarious, 5- or 10-lobed. Corolla slightly exserted from calyx; petals basally slightly connate. Stamens adnate to corolla base. Ovary linear-cylindrical, apex attenuate. Styles 5, free, glabrous; stigmas depressed capitate. Capsules oblong-filiform.[2] [more]

Acca

Achimenes

Achimenes is a of about 25 species of tropical and subtropical rhizomatous perennial herbs in the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae. They have a multitude of common names such as Magic Flowers, Widow's Tears, Cupid's Bower, or Hot Water Plant. The plant's name comes from the Greek word meaning "suffer from cold." [more]

Acosta

Acrostemon

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Acrotriche

Acrotriche is a of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. Species occur in all states of Australia. They include: [more]

Actinocyclus

A genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]

Acunna

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Aethionema

Perennial or annual herbs, often woody below, branched, erect or suberect, leafy, glabrous or rarely papillose. Leaves simple, usually sessile or subsessile, oblong or linear, glaucous. Racemes corymbose, usually many flowered, ebracteate. Flowers mediocre, rose, lilac or white, rarely yellowish; pedicls filiform, usually spreading in fruit. Sepals oblong, obtuse, rounded at apex; inner ±saccate at base; outer often somewhat hooded at apex. Petals obovate, cuneate or clawed, rarely oblong; claw 1-3-nerved. Stamens 6; filaments of longer stamens append-aged, dilated or linear; anthers often apiculate, ovate-orbicular. Lateral nectar glands in pairs, minute, semiglobose; middle usually absent. Ovary ± ellipsoid with narrowly flattened margin, 1-2-locular with 1-2 (rarely 3-4) ovules in each locule; stigma capitate, sub-sessile or on distinct short style. Siliculae ovate, elliptic or suborbicular, laterally flattened, usually winged, dehiscent, (rarely heterocarpic with dehiscent and indehiscent fruits), 1-4-seeded; apex generally deeply notched or emarginate; wing entire or variously dentate; seed ovate, brown, often minutely papillose; radicle incumbent, oblique or accumbent.[3] [more]

Agapetes

A genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]

Agarista

Agarista may be: [more]

Agauria

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Aguaria

Aliceara

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

Amarygia

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Amechania

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

Amelia

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Ammyrsine

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Anacamptis

Anacamptis is a from the orchid family (Orchidaceae); it is often abbreviated as Ant in horticulture. This genus was established by Louis Claude Richard in 1817; the type species is the Pyramidal Orchid (A. pyramidalis) and it nowadays contains about one-third of the species placed in the "wastebin genus" Orchis before this was split up at the end of the 20th century, among them many that are of hybrid origin. The genus' scientific name is derived from the Greek word anakamptein, meaning "to bend backwards". [more]

Andersonia

A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]

Andresia

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Andreusia

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Andromeda

Andromeda could refer to: [more]

Anemonella

Thalictrum thalictroides, the rue anemone, is a plant in the buttercup family, . [more]

Angraecum

The Angraecum, abbreviated as Angcm in horticultural trade, common name Angrec or Comet Orchid, contains about 220 species, some of them among most magnificent of all orchids. They are quite varied vegetatively and florally and are adapted to dry tropical woodland habitat and have quite fleshy leaves as a consequence. Most are epiphytes, but a few are lithophytes. [more]

Anguloa

Anguloa, commonly known as tulip orchids, is a small genus closely related to Lycaste. Its abbreviation in horticulture is Ang. This genus was described by José Antonio Pavón and Hipólito Ruiz López in 1798. They named it in honor of Francisco de Angulo, a contemporary Peruvian who collected orchids as a hobby and by this way had become quite knowledgeable about these plants, assisting the botanists in their work. [more]

Aniserica

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Anomalanthus

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Anthodendron

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Anthopteropsis

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Anthopterus

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Arachnocalyx

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Arbutus

Arbutus is a of at least 14 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae, native to warm temperate regions of the Mediterranean, western Europe, and North America. [more]

Arcterica

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Arctostaphyllos

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Arctostaphylos

The genus Arctostaphylos , the manzanitas (bearberries, are shrubs or small trees characterised by smooth, orange or red bark and stiff, twisting branches. [more]

Arctostaphylus

Arctous

Shrubs dwarf, deciduous. Twigs smooth, bark exfoliating in papery sheets; leaf or leaf bases marcescent. Leaf blade broad, margin serrate or crenate, flat. Flowers pendulous, 5-merous, in short terminal racemose clusters, with scales at base. Corolla urceolate, shortly lobed, abaxially glabrous, adaxially pubescent. Stamens included; filaments pubescent, much dilated below 1/3 length; anthers with 2 reflexed awns near apex, opening by 2 terminal pores. Ovary superior, glabrous, with one ovule per locule. Fruit a drupe; stones separate.[4] [more]

Arsace

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Asphodeline

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Azalea

Azaleastrum

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Batodendron

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Befaria

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Bejaria

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Bellevalia

Bellevalia is a genus of plants in the . [more]

Biramia

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Blaeria

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Boretta

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Botryostege

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Brachyloma

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Brassidium

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

Braxilia

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Brossaea

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Brossea

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Bruckenthalia

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Brunsvigia

Brunsvigia is a genus in the family Amaryllidaceae. It contains about 20 species native to South Africa. [more]

Bryanthus

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Caligula

A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]

Callista

Callista comes from the for "most beautiful (fem.)" (?a???st? - kalliste). It is an uncommon name for girls. [more]

Calluna

Calluna vulgaris, known as Common Heather, ling, or simply heather, is the sole species in the Calluna in the family Ericaceae. It is a low-growing perennial shrub growing to 20 to 50 centimetres (7.9 to 20 in) tall, or rarely to 1 metre (39 in), and is found widely in Europe and Asia Minor on acidic soils in open sunny situations and in moderate shade. It is the dominant plant in most heathland and moorland in Europe, and in some bog vegetation and acidic pine and oak woodland. It is tolerant of grazing and regenerates following occasional burning, and is often managed in nature reserves and grouse moors by sheep or cattle grazing, and also by light burning. [more]

Calopteryx

A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia.[5] [more]

Caralluma

Succulent, perennial, branched herbs. Stem erect, branched, 4-angled, glabrous. Leaves small caducous. Flowers single or few or many-flowered sessile lateral cymes or many-flowered inflorescence from the top of the stem. Calyx 5-partite, lobes ovate to linear-lanceolate, Corolla purple or yellowish with purple streaks, rotate or broadly campanulate, 5-lobed, valvate in bud. Corona double, attached to the staminal column; the outer corona of 5 deeply bifid segments; the innner corona of 5 linear segments incumbent on the anthers. Staminal column short, arising from the base of the corolla; anthers without appendages. Pollen mass 1 in each anther cell, with a pellucid margin. Follicles 9-11 cm long, narrowly fusiform, smooth.[6] [more]

Cassandra

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

Cassinia

Cassinia is a large of plants in the family Asteraceae, most or all of which are native to the Southern Hemisphere. It was named for French botanist Alexandre de Cassini. [more]

Cassiope

Shrubs evergreen, dwarf. Stems procumbent or ascending. Leaves decussate, sessile, appressed and crowded, imbricate, usually 4-ranked. Leaf blade small, entire or fimbriate-ciliate, veinless, 1-channeled on back, sometimes plane or convex. Flowers solitary, axillary, pendulous. Pedicel slender, base bracteate; bracteoles absent. Flowers usually 5-merous. Calyx lobes imbricate, subfree. Corolla white or pink, campanulate, lobed or cleft; lobes recurved. Stamens included; filaments straight, flattened; anthers ovate, with two long recurved awns. Ovary superior, glabrous, with many ovules per locule. Capsule depressed-globose, each valve 2-cleft at apex. Seeds many, minute, wingless.[7] [more]

Catananche

Catananche is a of the botanical family Asteraceae. [more]

Catasetum

Catasetum, abbreviated as Ctsm in horticultural trade, is a of the Orchid family (Orchidaceae), subfamily Epidendroideae, tribe Cymbidieae, subtribe Catasetinae, with 166 species. [more]

Cautleya

Rhizomes very short; roots fascicled, thick, fleshy. Leaves petiolate or ± sessile; ligule at base of petiole; leaf blade oblong or lanceolate. Inflorescence a terminal spike; bracts colored, persistent, 1-flowered. Flowers yellow or orange. Calyx long tubular, split on 1 side. Corolla tube equaling or longer than calyx; lobes subequal; central one erect, narrow, concave; lateral ones connate to claw of labellum for about 1/2 their length. Lateral staminodes erect, petaloid. Labellum reflexed, broadly cuneate, apex emarginate to 2-cleft. Filament erect, short; anther locules linear, contiguous; connective forming a basal, forked appendage. Ovary globose, 3-loculed; ovules numerous per locule; placentation axile. Style linear; stigma turbinate, margin ciliate. Capsule globose, soon dehiscing to base with recurved valves exposing seeds on a columnar mass. Seeds red, gray, or black, angled; aril small or absent.[8] [more]

Cavendishia

Cavendishia is a of about 100 species of woody perennial plants, many of which are epiphytic. The genus is native to tropical South America and Central America. [more]

Cavinium

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Celmisia

Celmisia is a of perennial herbs or subshrubs, in the family Asteraceae. There are around 70 species; most are endemic to New Zealand, butween four and 10 are endemic to Australia. The genus was first formally described by botanist Alexandre de Cassini in 1813. [more]

Ceratostema

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Chamaecistus

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Chamaedaphne

Shrubs evergreen, lepidote. Stems arching. Leaf blade leathery, margin entire or inconspicuously denticulate. Inflorescences terminal, secund racemes; bracts leaflike. Flowers 5-merous. Corolla urceolate to tubular. Stamens included; filaments straight, subulate, lacking appendages, anthers dehiscing by terminal pores. Ovary superior, with many ovules per locule; stigma truncate. Capsule loculicidal; epicarp 5-valved, separating from 10-valved endocarp. Seeds many, small, wingless.[9] [more]

Chamaeledon

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Chamaerhododendron

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Cheilotheca

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Chimaphila

Herbs perennial, decumbent or shrubs dwarf, erect, evergreen. Leaves opposite or subverticillate, shortly petiolate, often crowded; leaf blade leathery, margin serrate. Flowers solitary, terminal, or 1 or 2 on simple or branched, bracteate peduncles, nodding, regular. Sepals 5, persistent. Petals 5, concave. Filaments pilose; anthers opening by pores. Ovary depressed-globose, 5-locular; style obconic, straight, very short. Capsules depressed-globose, long persistent, erect. n = 13.[10] [more]

Chimaphilia

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Chimonobambusa

Shrubby bamboos, rarely subarborescent. Rhizomes leptomorph, with running underground stems. Culms usually diffuse, sometimes tillering (pluricaespitose), erect; internodes terete or 4-angled, often basally grooved above branches; nodes prominent to very prominent, basal nodes often with a ring of sparse or dense root thorns; sheath scars usually with a ring of pubescence or persistent base of culm sheath. Branches 3(-7 on upper culm), subequal, buds ovate-triangular, open at front, prophyll reduced. Culm sheaths deciduous and leathery, or sometimes persistent and papery; auricles minute or absent; blade reduced, to 1 cm, narrow. Leaves (1 or) 2-5 per ultimate branch; blade lanceolate, base cuneate. Inflorescence fully bracteate, weakly iterauctant, 1-3 single pseudospikelet racemes loosely fasciculate, subtended by gradually enlarged bracts. Spikelets several to many flowered, sessile. Rachilla disarticulating. Glumes usually 1-3, frequently one subtending a bud; lemma papery or membranous; palea membranous, 2-keeled, obtuse; lodicules 3, membranous. Stamens 3; filaments free. Ovary ellipsoid; style 1, short; stigmas 2 or 3, plumose. Fruit a nutlike caryopsis with a hardened pericarp. New shoots Apr-Nov.[11] [more]

Chiogenes

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Chitalpa

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Chlorocodon

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Chupalon

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Cinsania

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Cladothamnus

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Clivia

Clivia is a of monocot flowering plants native to southern Africa. They are from the family Amaryllidaceae. Common names include Kaffir lily and bush lily. [more]

Coccosperma

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Coilostigma

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Coleanthera

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Comarostaphylis

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Conostephium

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Corokia

Corokia is a in the Argophyllaceae family comprising about ten species native to New Zealand and one native to Australia. Corokia species are shrubs or small trees with zigzagging branches. In fact, corokia cotoneaster is commonly known as wire-netting bush. The stems of the shrubs are dark when mature, covered with downy or silky hairs (tomentum) when young. In spring, they produce clusters of small, star shaped yellow blossoms. Berries are red or yellow. The shrubs prefer forests and rocky areas, sun or light shade, reasonably well drained soil, and moderate watering. [more]

Corylopsis

Costera

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

Craibiodendron

Shrubs or trees, evergreen. Twigs glabrous. Buds often superimposed, with 2-4 imbricate scales. Leaf petiole often reddish when young; leaf blade leathery, margin entire. Inflorescences axillary, paniculate or racemose. Pedicel short. Flowers small, 5-merous. Corolla campanulate or urceolate to tubular. Stamens much shorter than corolla; filaments geniculate, swollen near base, lacking appendages; anthers ± ovoid, dehiscing by introrse-terminal elliptic pores. Ovary superior, with many ovules per locule. Capsule depressed-globose, thick-walled, loculicidal. Seeds large; testa unilaterally winged.[12] [more]

Cremanthodium

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Cryptophila

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Cuellaria

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Cuitlauzina

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Cyananthus

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Cyanococcus

Blueberries are of the genus Vaccinium with dark-blue, -purple or black berries. Species in the section Cyanococcus are the most common fruits sold as "blueberries" and are mainly native to North America. They are usually erect but sometimes prostrate shrubs varying in size from 10 cm tall to 4 m tall. In commercial blueberry production, smaller species are known as "lowbush blueberries" (synonymous with "wild"), and the larger species as "highbush blueberries". The leaves can be either deciduous or evergreen, ovate to lanceolate, and from 1–8 cm long and 0.5–3.5 cm broad. The flowers are bell-shaped, white, pale pink or red, sometimes tinged greenish. [more]

Daboecia

Daboecia is a small in the family Ericaceae, containing two shrubby species, closely related to the genus Erica. [more]

Daphnidostaphylis

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Decachaena

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Decaisnea

Shrubs erect, deciduous. Monoecious. Branches few. Winter buds with 2 outer scales. Leaves odd pinnate; petiole articulate at base; petiolules short; leaflets opposite. Inflorescences paniculate racemes, terminal. Sepals 6, subimbricate. Petals absent. Male flowers: stamens 6; anthers oblong. Pistillodes small, concealed within filament tube. Female flowers: staminodes free or connate at base. Carpels 3, straight; ovules in 2 rows on either side of carpel adaxial suture. Stigma conspicuous. Fruit straight or ± recurved, dehiscent. Seeds embedded in white translucent pulp, compressed.[13] [more]

Decamerium

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Demosthenesia

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Dendrium

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Desmogyne

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Desmothamnus

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Dichroa

Shrubs or subshrubs. Leaves opposite, rarely alternate apically on stem. Inflorescence terminal, a corymbose cyme or panicle. Flowers bisexual. Calyx tube adnate to ovary, obconical; lobes 5(or 6). Petals 5(or 6), variously colored, induplicate-valvate in bud. Stamens 4-10(-20) ; filaments filiform or subulate; anthers ellipsoid to ovoid, 2-loculed. Ovary semi-inferior to subinferior, incompletely 3-5-loculed; placentation parietal; ovules numerous. Styles 2-6, free or connate only at base, divergent; stigma oblong to subglobose. Fruit a fleshy berry, 1-valved, slightly dry. Seeds ovoid, minute; seed coat membranous, reticulate; embryo surrounded by fleshy endosperm.[14] [more]

Didonica

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Dierama

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Dimorphanthera

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Diogenesia

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Diplarche

Shrubs dwarf, evergreen, densely pulvinate. Leaves crowded, sessile; leaf blade linear or linear-elliptic, small, leathery, margin serrate or long-ciliate, apex subacute or ending in a gland. Inflorescence terminal, racemose or subcapitate. Bracts and bracteoles leaflike, margin glandular-ciliate. Calyx lobes 5, leathery, margin glandular-ciliate. Corolla rose, small, deciduous; tube cylindric; lobes 5, patent. Stamens 10, included: 5 basal or hypogynous, 5 inserted high on corolla and alternating with corolla lobes; anthers elliptic, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary globose, 5-celled, glabrous; style short; stigma capitate, 5-lobed. Capsule globose, enclosed by calyx, septicidally 5-valved; wall of cells splitting into two layers. Seeds many; testa with reticulate veins.[15] [more]

Diplycosia

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Disophyllum

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Disterigma

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Doritis

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Dracophyllum

Dracophyllum is a genus of plants belonging to the family , formerly Epacridaceae. There are some one hundred or so species in the genus, mostly shrubs but also cusion plants and trees, found in New Zealand, Australia and New Caledonia. The name, Dracophyllum or Dragon-leaf refers to their strange, almost prehistoric appearance. Although dicotyledonous they resemble primitive monocots with their slender leaves concentrated in clumps at the ends of the branches; they are sometimes called Grass-trees. [more]

Drepanostachyum

Shrubby bamboos. Rhizomes short necked, pachymorph. Culms unicaespitose, to 4 m tall, distally pendulous; internodes terete, glabrous, cavity not filled with pith; nodes raised. Mid-culm branch buds very broadly ovoid, bud scale open at front, branch sheathing reduced, very many branch initials visible in 2 ranks. Branches very numerous and congested; branchlets initially 8-16 in 2 or 3 rows, later to 80, verticillate, subequal, slender. Culm sheaths deciduous, narrowly triangular, papery, adaxially scabrous inside apically, apex narrowly acuminate with distally concave edges, blade subulate. Leaves small-sized, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, delicate, matte, transverse veins absent. Inflorescence ebracteate, interrupted falcate panicles and dense clusters on leafy or leafless flowering branches. Spikelets delicate, 2-6 flowered, followed by a sterile floret, pedicel curved, short to long. Glumes 2, membranous. Lemma longer than second glume, leathery, many veined, acuminate; palea equal to or shorter than lemma, 2-keeled, obtuse; lodicules 3, transparent. Stamens 3; filaments free, long exserted; anthers yellow. Ovary appendage absent; style 1; stigmas 2, plumose. Caryopsis grainlike, narrow. New shoots summer-early autumn.[16] [more]

Dryadella

Dryadella is a of miniature orchids, formerly included in the genus Masdevallia. Plants are typically composed of a tuft of leaves from 3 to 6 cm long. The small (1-2 cm) flowers are often conspicuously spotted, and are borne at the base of the leaves. There are about 40 species, distributed from southern Mexico to southern Brazil and northern Argentina. In cultivation many of the species seem to respond well to being grown on cork or treefern rather than in pots. The attractive species Dryadella edwallii, commonly known as 'Partridge in the Grass' can be easily grown into a spectacular specimen plant, full of flowers. [more]

Echidnopsis

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Echinopsis

Echinopsis is a large of cacti native to South America, sometimes known as hedgehog cacti, sea-urchin cactus or Easter lily cactus. One small species, E. chamaecereus, is known as the peanut cactus. The 128 species range from large and treelike types to small globose cacti. The name derives from echinos hedgehog or sea urchin, and opsis appearance, a reference to these plants' dense coverings of spines. [more]

Ectasis

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

Eleutherostemon

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Elliottia

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Ematis

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Empedoclesia

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Englerodoxa

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Enkianthus

Shrubs or small trees, deciduous, rarely evergreen. Leaves clustered at ends of twigs, petiolate; leaf blade serrate or subentire. Inflorescence terminal, in umbels or corymbose racemes, flowers rarely solitary or in pairs, 5-merous. Corolla broadly campanulate to urceolate; lobes short. Stamens much shorter than corolla; filaments flattened, distinctly dilated towards base; anthers oblong, thecae each dehiscing by an elongate slit, awned at apex; pollen grains single. Ovary superior, with few ovules per locule; stigma truncate. Capsule loculicidal, ovoid. Seeds several or one; testa lamellate-winged.[17] [more]

Epacris

Epacris is a of about 35-40 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae, though formerly often treated in a separate family Epacridaceae. The genus is native to eastern and southeastern Australia (southeast Queensland south to Tasmania and west to southeast South Australia), New Caledonia and New Zealand. The species are known as heaths or Australian heaths. [more]

Epigaea

Epigynium

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Episcopia

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

Eremia

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Eremiella

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Eremiopsis

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Eremocallis

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Eremotropa

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Erica

A genus in the Kingdom Animalia.[18] [more]

Ericaceae

Ericinella

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Ericodes

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Ericoides

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Erinus

Erinus is a of ornamental plants belonging to the family Plantaginaceae and that used to be in the family Scrophulariaceae. [more]

Eubotryoides

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Eubotrys

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Eucryphia

Eucryphia is a small genus of or large shrubs of the Antarctic flora, native to the south temperate regions of South America and coastal eastern Australia. Traditionally placed in a family of their own, the Eucryphiaceae, more recent classifications place them in the Cunoniaceae. There are seven species, two in South America and five in Australia, and several named hybrids. They are mostly evergreen though one species (E. glutinosa) is usually deciduous. [more]

Eurygania

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Eurylepis

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Findlaya

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Gaulnettya

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Gaultheria

Shrubs evergreen. Stems erect, creeping, or procumbent. Leaves spirally arranged, petiolate; leaf blade serrate or rarely entire. Flower usually 5-merous, sometimes 4-merous, in axillary or terminal racemes or panicles, or solitary; bracteoles variable in position. Calyx deeply divided. Corolla usually white, urceolate, campanulate, or tubular, shallowly lobed. Stamens included; filaments flattened, usually dilated towards base; anthers oblong, dehiscing by terminal pores, with 24 awns or minute projections. Ovary superior or semi-inferior, with many ovules per locule. Stigma truncate. Calyx at fruiting accrescent, fleshy; capsule dehiscing loculicidally or sometimes irregularly [fruit a berry]. Seeds small, unwinged.[19] [more]

Gaulthettya

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Gautiera

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Gaylussacia

Gaylussacia is a genus of about fifty species of in the family Ericaceae, native to the Americas, where they occur in eastern North America (eight species) and in South America in the Andes (seven species) and the mountains of southeastern Brazil (the remaining thirty-five species). Common English names include huckleberry (shared with plants in several other genera) and "dangleberry". [more]

Geaya

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Glumicalyx

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Glyciphylla

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Gonocalyx

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Grisebachia

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Gynoglottis

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Gypsocallis

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Hemiboea

Herbs, perennial, terrestrial or epipetric, stoloniferous. Stems simple or branched. Leaves few to many, along stem, opposite, equal to subequal in a pair; leaf blade glabrous to pilose, base attenuate to cuneate, rarely rounded. Inflorescences umbel-like, dense, axillary or pseudoterminal, 1- to many-flowered cymes; bracts 2, opposite, connate, forming a globose to ovoid involucre. Calyx actinomorphic, 5-sect from base, 2-lipped, or 5-lobed from middle or above; segments equal, rarely unequal. Corolla white to pink, purple, or yellow, zygomorphic, inside usually with a ring of hairs; tube funnelform-tubular, not swollen, longer than limb, 0.7-2 cm in diam.; limb 2-lipped; adaxial lip 2-lobed, shorter than to nearly as long as abaxial lip; abaxial lip 3-lobed, lobes equal or subequal, apex rounded. Stamens 2, adnate to abaxial side of corolla tube below middle, included; anthers basifixed, coherent apically or adaxially, thecae parallel, not confluent at apex, dehiscing longitudinally; connective not projecting; staminodes 2 or 3, adnate to adaxial side of corolla tube. Disc ringlike. Ovary linear to linear-lanceolate, 2-loculed, only adaxial locule fertile; placenta 1, axile. Stigma 1, terminal, truncate to obtuse or capitate, undivided. Capsule straight or oblique in relation to pedicel, usually narrowly lanceolate, somewhat curved, much longer than calyx, dehiscing loculicidally to base only adaxially; valves 2, straight, not twisted. Seeds unappendaged.[20] [more]

Hermas

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

Herpothamnus

[more]

Heucherella

[more]

Hochenwartia

[more]

Hornemannia

[more]

Hugeria

[more]

Hymenanthes

Rhododendron subgenus Hymenanthes is a subgenus of the genus , with a widespread distribution in the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The species are evergreen shrubs and small to medium-sized trees (up to 20 m tall), with medium-sized to large leaves (very large, over 40 cm long, in a few species). The flowers are large, produced in terminal trusses of 5-40 together. [more]

Hypopitys

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Iaera

Itasina

[more]

Kalmia

Kalmia is a of about 7 species of evergreen shrubs from 0.2-5 m tall, in the family Ericaceae. They are native to North America (mainly in the eastern half of the continent) and Cuba. They grow in acidic soils, with different species in wet acid bog habitats (K. angustifolia, K. polifolia) and dry, sandy soils (K. ericoides, K. latifolia). [more]

Kalmiella

[more]

Kalmiopsis

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

Killipiella

[more]

Lachenalia

Lachenalia is a of bulbs in the Hyacinthaceae family, which are usually found in Namibia and South Africa. Most of these plants have a dormancy period, and the new roots of these plants will always grow every year. [more]

Lagenophora

[more]

Lamprotis

[more]

Laretia

[more]

Laserpitium

[more]

Lateropora

[more]

Ledodendron

[more]

Ledothamnus

[more]

Ledum

Shrubs evergreen, small, multibranched, with fragrant resin. Leaves shortly petiolate; leaf blade linear, linear-lanceolate, or narrowly oblong, leathery, abaxially with white and/or rusty brown-pilose or woolly indumentum, margin entire, recurved. Inflorescences terminal, racemose, many-flowered; bracts present at peduncle base, dry, membranous, soon deciduous; bractlets absent. Calyx small, 5-lobed, persistent. Corolla white, divided to base; lobes imbricate in bud. Stamens (5-) 8-10, protruding beyond corolla; filaments linear; anthers small, abaxially connected, globose, without appendages. Flower disk 8-10-lobed. Ovary globose, 5-locular, lepidote. Style linear; stigma obtuse, 5-lobed. Capsule ellipsoid or cylindric, opening from base. Seeds tiny.[21] [more]

Leiophyllum

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

Lemaireocereus

Pachycereus is a of 9-12 species of large cacti, native to Mexico and just into southern Arizona, USA. They form large shrubs or small trees up to 5-15 m or more tall, with stout stems up to 1 m diameter. [more]

Leontopodium

Leontopodium is a genus of plants in the , which includes edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum), a well-known plant from the mountains of Europe. The term edelweiss can, more rarely, refer to other members of the genus. The genus contains about 30 species, native to Europe and Asia (and perhaps the Americas). [more]

Leptinella

[more]

Leptospermum

Leptospermum is a genus of about 80-86 species of plants in the myrtle family . Most species are endemic to Australia, with the greatest diversity in the south of the continent; but one species extends to New Zealand, another to Malaysia, and L. recurvum is endemic to Malaysia. [more]

Leucosceptrum

Shrubs to small trees, bark smooth, stellate-tomentose. Leaves petiolate. Verticillasters in dense, terminal cylindric spikes; bracts subreniform, densely overlapping; bracteoles minute, linear. Pedicel short. Calyx campanulate, densely tomentose, slightly curved, 15-veined; teeth 5(-7), equal, triangular. Corolla white or reddish to purple-red, tubular, with a hairy annulus inside; limb 2-lipped, upper lip emarginate; lower lip 3-lobed, middle lobe larger. Stamens 4, anterior 2 longer, inserted at middle of corolla tube; filaments slender, densely puberulent at base, involute in bud, much exserted in flower; anthers 1-locellate, reniform, transversely dehiscent, basifixed. Ovary 4-lobed, tuberculate. Style slender, apex subequally 2-cleft, lobes subulate. Disc subannular, equally shallow 4-lobed. Nutlets triquetrous, oblong, apex truncate, areolae basal.[22] [more]

Leucothoe

Shrubs evergreen. Leaves petiolate, serrulate or subentire. Inflorescences axillary, racemose, glabrous. Flowers 5-merous. Calyx lobes short. Corolla white, suburceolate to tubular; lobes recurved, short. Stamens much shorter than corolla tube; filaments straight, flattened; anthers oblong, thecae separate above, each opening by a terminal pore and with a slender awn. Ovary superior, glabrous, with many ovules per locule. Stigma capitate, 5-lobed. Capsule loculicidal, depressed globose. Seeds flattened, angled; testa smooth, shiny, reticulate.[23] [more]

Lichtensteinia

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Ligularia

Perennials, 15-150+ cm (glabrous or scattered-hairy, especially distally [arachno-tomentose]; roots fibrous). Stems usually 1, erect. Leaves basal and cauline; alternate; petiolate (petiole bases dilated, ± sheathing stems) ; blades (basal and proximal largest, cauline smaller distally) palmately [palmati-pinnately] nerved, orbiculate to reniform [elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate, ovate], margins dentate [denticulate, serrate, dissected], faces glabrous or sparsely pilosulous (mostly on nerves) [glaucous; arachno-tomentose]. Heads radiate [discoid], in corymbiform [racemiform or spiciform] arrays. Calyculi 0 [1-2+ bractlets]. Involucres cylindric to campanulate, [3-]16-28 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, [5-]8-13+ in 1-2 series, erect, distinct (margins interlocking) [connate at bases], mostly oblong or lanceolate to linear, subequal, margins usually ± scarious (tips greenish or reddish, not blackened). Receptacles flat to convex, smooth, epaleate. Ray florets [0 or 1-7] 8-14+, pistillate, fertile; corollas (laminae prominent, showy) orange to orange-yellow or brick-red [yellow]. Disc florets [5-]12-100+, bisexual, fertile; corollas orange-yellow to orange, becoming brownish [yellow], tubes longer than cylindric throats, lobes 5, recurved, lance-linear; style branches: stigmatic areas continuous, apices truncate or rounded-truncate. Cypselae (stramineous to brownish) ± ellipsoid [cylindric or fusiform], 5[-10]-ribbed or -nerved, glabrous; pappi persistent (fragile), of 40-100+, reddish [sordid, brownish, purplish], barbellate to barbellulate bristles ([shorter than] longer than cypselae). x = 30.[24] [more]

Lithodora

Lithodora is a genus of in family Boraginaceae. [more]

Loasa

Loasa is a of ornamental plants in the family Loasaceae. These plants are usually prickly herbs, or subshrubs, and they are native of tropical America. [more]

Loiseleuria

[more]

Lyonia

Shrubs or trees, deciduous or evergreen, often from underground woody burl or producing thickened horizontal underground rhizomes. Buds flattened, conical or ovoid, usually with 2 large imbricate glabrous scales. Leaves spirally arranged, petiolate; leaf blade entire [toothed in United States]. Inflorescences axillary, racemose. Flowers [4- or]5[ 8]-merous. Calyx with variously estivated lobes, usually valvate in bud. Corolla white [to red], tubular or urceolate; lobes short. Filaments flattened, geniculate, with or without 1 pair of spurs at anther-filament junction; anthers dehiscing by introrse-terminal elliptic pores. Ovary superior, with many ovules per locule; stigma truncate. Capsule loculicidal, with pale ± thickened sutures sometimes separating from valves in dehiscence. Seeds oblong-ovoid or spindle-shaped to shortly linear, minute, ends often truncated.[25] [more]

Lysiclesia

[more]

Macleania

Macleania is a genus of in family Ericaceae. [more]

Macnabia

[more]

Macrolinum

[more]

Mairania

[more]

Malea

A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]

Meconopsis

Perennial, often prickly, simple or rarely branched, often tall and robust herbs with yellow latex. Leaves entire or lobed, radical stalked, cauline sessile or subsessile. Inflorescence solitary, racemed, pseudo-racemed or panicled. Flowers often large, showy, blue, yellow or purplish-red. Sepals 2(-4), usually caducous, valvate. Petals 4 (often varying from 5-10), free, obovate to broadly ovate. Stamens many, multiseriate; filament filiform; anthers often oblong. Carpels many, fused, superior, with unilocular, ellipsoid to subglobose ovary; ovules many on parietal placentae projecting into the ovary; style distinct, often short; stigma rays 5-6, radiating and forming a globular mass over the ovary. Capsule ovoid, oblong, clavate or cylindrical, 1-celled, dehiscing by short slits at the apex or sometimes splitting almost to the base of the fruit. Seeds many, small, rugose.[26] [more]

Meisteria

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Melandrium

[more]

Melidora

The Hook-billed Kingfisher (Melidora macrorrhina) is a species of in the Alcedinidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Melidora. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. [more]

Mendoncella

[more]

Menziesia

Menziesia is a genus of in the family Ericaceae. [more]

Micranthus

[more]

Minuria

[more]

Mitrastylus

[more]

Monotropa

Herbs perennial, mycoparasitic, lacking chlorophyll. Axis nodding, white to reddish. Leaves absent or reduced to laminar structures. Inflorescence scapose or racemose arising from persistent root system. Flowers solitary or in several-flowered racemes, often nodding at anthesis, usually erect in fruit, bracteate. Sepals 4 or 5, usually appressed to petals. Petals 36, oblong, often saccate at base, apex dilated. Stamens 812 in two series of alternating unequal lengths; anthers horizontally reniform, with terminal slit. Disk of 810 distended paired lobes adnate to base of ovary. Ovary (3) 5(or 6) -loculed, with axile placentation; style base sharply differentiated from ovary. Capsules globose to narrowly ovoid, loculicidally dehiscent, valves with marginal fibers; perianth segments early deciduous at fruiting. Seeds many, fusiform, minute; testa thin, prolonged at both ends, minutely reticulate. n = 16, 24.[27] [more]

Monotropastrum

Herbs perennial, obligate mycoparasitic, from persistent root system. Roots forming a rather dense mass. Stems absent. Leaves absent. Inflorescences scapose or racemose, arising in nodding position from roots; inflorescence bracts laminar, sessile, usually appressed to inflorescence axis. Flowers solitary on scapes or in several flowered racemes, each flower usually nodding at anthesis, erect in fruit. Sepals (1) 3(5), occasionally absent, appressed to petals. Petals 35, oblong, abaxially glabrous, adaxially finely pubescent, base broadly saccate, apex dilated. Stamens ca. as long as petals, usually 610 in two series of alternating lengths. Anthers horizontally reniform, with terminal slits. Disk of paired lobes at bases of shorter series of stamens. Ovary 1-loculed, with 4 or 5 or more parietal placentae; style 36 mm, slender, merging imperceptibly with ovary, without visible dehiscence lines. Fruit an indehiscent berry. Seeds minute, numerous, ovoid, cell reticulate, without wings or appendages.[28] [more]

Mutisia

Mutisia is a genus of in the Asteraceae family. [more]

Myriocephalus

[more]

Myrtillus

[more]

Nabea

[more]

Nagelocarpus

Nanium

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

Needhamiella

[more]

Newberrya

[more]

Nivenia

[more]

Notopora

[more]

Oberonia

[more]

Odontioda

[more]

Oligarrhena

[more]

Omphalocaryon

[more]

Oreanthes

[more]

Oreocallis

[more]

Oreomyrrhis

Herbs perennial and caespitose. Stem inconspicuous or very short, branching from base. Leaves all basal; petiole with membranous sheath at base; blade oblong to ovate, 12-pinnate; ultimate segments linear-lanceolate, minute. Umbels simple, 420-flowered; peduncles long, scapelike; bracts 410, leaflike, oblanceolate, entire, pinnatifid or pinnate, often longer than umbels. Flowers small, white, bisexual. Calyx teeth obsolete. Petals oblong, apex acute and incurved. Stylopodium shortly conic or conic. Fruit oblong-ovoid or oblong-linear, gradually tapered to apex, slightly flattened laterally, commissure constricted; ribs 5, obtuse ridged; vittae 1 in each furrow, 2 on commissure. Seed face slightly concave. Carpophore bifid at apex.[29] [more]

Oreorchis

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Ornithochilus

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Orphanidesia

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Orthaea

[more]

Orthilia

Subshrubs evergreen, herbaceous, small. Leaves spiral or subverticillate at middle of stem, thin. Inflorescence racemose, small; scape small papillose. Flowers 4 15 along one side of raceme, small. Petals not persistent. Anthers lacking tubules. Disk 10-lobed. Stamens 10, erect, projecting; tubes absent. Styles erect, slender; stigmas peltate. Capsule pubescent at margin of valve.[30] [more]

Osmothamnus

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Ourisia

[more]

Oxycoccus

Vaccinium is a of shrubs or dwarf shrubs in the plant Family Ericaceae. The fruit of many species are eaten by humans and some are of commercial importance, including the cranberry, blueberry, bilberry or whortleberry, lingonberry or cowberry, and huckleberry. Like many other ericaceous plants, they are generally restricted to acidic soils. [more]

Oxydendron

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Oxydendrum

Sourwood or Sorrel Tree (Oxydendrum arboreum, pronounced ) is the sole in the genus Oxydendrum DC, in the family Ericaceae. It is native to eastern North America, from southern Pennsylvania south to northwest Florida and west to southern Illinois; it is most common in the lower chain of the Appalachian Mountains. [more]

Oxydendum

[more]

Ozothamnus

Ozothamnus is a of plants found in Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. [more]

Pachycalyx

[more]

Paphia

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Papilionanthe

[more]

Parahebe

[more]

Parapyrola

[more]

Paraquilegia

Herbs perennial. Rhizomes robust, densely covered with basal remnants of old petioles and leaves. Leaves many, basal, 1 or 2 × ternately compound; petiole long, basally sheathed; leaf blade papery. Scapes 1--8, erect, usually ± as long as leaves; bracts 2, usually opposite, basally sheathed; sheath broad, membranous. Flowers terminal, solitary, actinomorphic, bisexual. Sepals 5, petaloid. Petals 5, yellow, much shorter than sepals, basally pouchlike. Stamens numerous; filaments filiform, sometimes basally slightly dilated; anthers yellow, ellipsoid. Pistils 5--(8) ; ovary 2 × as long as style; ovules many, in 2 series. Follicles erect or slightly spreading, surface conspicuously striate-reticulate; persistent styles ca. 3 × shorter than follicle. Seeds smooth or densely rugose.[31] [more]

Pardoglossum

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Pellegrinia

Pentapera

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Pentapterygium

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Periclesia

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Pernettya

Gaultheria is a genus of about 170-180 species of in the family Ericaceae. The name memorializes M. Hugues Gauthier of Quebec, a mis-spelt honour bestowed by the Scandinavian Pehr Kalm in 1748. These plants are native to Asia, North and South America, and Australasia. In the past, the Southern Hemisphere species were often treated in a separate genus ; however, there is no consistent reliable morphological or genetic difference to support recognition of two genera, and they are now united in the single genus Gaultheria. [more]

Pernettyopsis

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Phagnalon

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Phalerocarpus

[more]

Philippia

A genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]

Philotheca

Philotheca is a of flowering plants belonging to the family Rutaceae. Many plants formerly in Eriostemon are now in this genus. [1] [more]

Phygelius

Phygelius (E. Mey.ex Benth.), Cape fuchsia, is a of the Scrophulariaceae family. The genus is native to southern Africa. The plants are adapted to surviving severe summer conditions. Phygelius is not related to the Fuchsia genus, in spite of the common name. [more]

Phylica

Phylica is a genus of in family Rhamnaceae. [more]

Phylliopsis

[more]

Phyllodoce

A genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]

Pieris

A genus in the Kingdom Animalia.[32] [more]

Platycalyx

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Pleioblastus

Pleioblastus is a of monopodial bamboo. Genetic research indicates that this genus may properly be part of the genus Arundinaria. [more]

Pleione

Pleione may refer to [more]

Plutarchia

[more]

Podanthus

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Polifolia

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Polyclita

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Polycodium

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Portuna

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Prangos

Herbs, perennial. Root long-conic, woody. Stem erect, branched, base clothed in stiff or fibrous remnant sheaths. Basal leaves caespitose, petiolate, sheathing at base; blade 3-4-pinnate; ultimate segments linear, entire. Leaves reduced upwards. Umbels compound, terminal or lateral; bracts several, linear or lanceolate; bracteoles similar to bracts. Calyx teeth obsolete. Petals white or yellow, ovate or elliptic, apex incurved. Stylopodium depressed, almost hidden in the apex of mature fruit; styles short, spreading. Fruit oblong to ellipsoid, somewhat dorsally compressed; ribs 5, dorsal ribs filiform, lateral ribs winged, or all ribs inconspicuous; mesocarp thick, corky; vittae numerous, small, encircling seed. Seed face inflexed into a deep T-shaped groove. Carpophore 2-parted.[33] [more]

Pritzelago

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Proclesia

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Psammisia

[more]

Pterospora

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

Puya

Puya can refer to: [more]

Pyrethrum

Pyrethrum refers to several Old World plants of the genus (e.g., C. coccineum) which are cultivated as ornamentals for their showy flower heads. It is also the name of a natural insecticide made from the dried flower heads of C. cinerariifolium and C. coccineum. Pyrethrum was used for centuries as an insecticide and as a lice remedy ("Persian Insect Powder," "Persian Pellitory") in the Middle East. It was sold worldwide under the brand Zacherlin by Austrian industrialist J. Zacherl. [more]

Pyrola

Ramischia

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Raoulia

[more]

Rebutia

Rebutia K. Schum. is a in the family Cactaceae, native to Bolivia and Argentina. [more]

Regelia

Regelia is a of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae. This genus is composed of six species of small leaved, evergreen shrubs and trees that are endemic to Australia. Five of the six species are endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. The sixth species that has been assigned to this genus (R. punicea) is endemic to Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory and is now considered to belong to a new separate genus, Petraeomyrtus. Regelia species range from 1 to 6 meters in height. They are noted for bearing essential oils. Typically showy blooms are aggregate inflorescences which take the form of heads or spikes depending upon the species. Fruits are a woody, 3-valved capsule which often split upon maturity. [more]

Rhodanthemum

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Rhodococcum

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Rhododendron

Shrubs or trees, terrestrial or epiphytic, with various hairs, and/or with peltate scales or glabrous, indumentum sometimes detersile (the hairs tangled and coming away as a layer) . Leaves evergreen, deciduous or semideciduous, alternate, sometimes clustered at stem apex; margin entire, very rarely crenulate, abaxial indumentum sometimes with a pellicle (a thin skinlike layer on the surface) . Inflorescence a raceme or corymb, mostly terminal, sometimes lateral, few- to many-flowered, sometimes reduced to a single flower. Calyx persistent, 5-8-lobed, sometimes reduced to a rim, lobes minute and triangular to large and conspicuous. Corolla funnelform, campanulate, tubular, rotate or hypocrateriform, regular or slightly zygomorphic, 5(-8) -lobed, lobes imbricate in bud. Stamens 5-10(-27), inserted at base of corolla, usually declinate; filaments linear to filiform, glabrous or pilose towards base; anthers without appendages, opening by terminal or oblique pores. Disk usually thick, 5-10(-14) -lobed. Ovary 5(-18) -locular, with hairs and/or scales, rarely glabrous. Style straight or declinate to deflexed, persistent; stigma capitate-discoid, crenate to lobed. Capsule cylindrical, coniform, or ovoid, sometimes curved, dehiscent from top, septicidal; valves thick or thin, straight or twisted. Seeds very numerous, minute, fusiform, always winged, or both ends with appendages or thread-like tails.[34] [more]

Rhodohypoxis

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Rhodophiala

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Rhodora

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Rhodothamnus

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Rhoicissus

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Rhopalostylis

Rhopalostylis is a of two species of palms native to the South Pacific. Both are smooth-trunked, with regular ringed scars from fallen leaves. The leaves are 3-5 metres in length, and the leaf bases encircle the trunk. [more]

Rhyncholaelia

Rhyncholaelia, abbreviated Rhynch in horticultural trade, is a of orchids (family Orchidaceae), comprising 2 species. They are distributed from Mexico to Honduras. They were previously included in Brassavola. [more]

Rigidella

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Rigiolepis

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Robiquetia

[more]

Rohdea

Herbs perennial, rhizomatous. Rhizome ascending, thick, stout. Leaves basal, tufted, usually slightly distichous equitant, sessile, base dilated. Scape axillary, suberect, much shorter than leaves. Inflorescence a terminal spike, densely flowered, fleshy; bracts short, membranous. Flowers bisexual. Perianth segments connate except at apex into a globose-campanulate tube; lobes incurved, short, fleshy. Stamens 6; filaments nearly wholly adnate to perianth tube; anthers positioned distally in perianth tube, dorsifixed. Ovary globose, 3-loculed; ovules 2 per locule. Style very short or inconspicuous; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit a berry, 1-seeded.[35] [more]

Rosularia

Herbs perennial, usually hairy. Rootstock usually fleshy. Leaves mostly in dense, basal rosettes, usually with several rosettes per plant, alternate, sessile, flat. Flowering stems often several, arising from axils of rosette leaves (or solitary and arising from center of rosette) ; stem leaves alternate. Inflorescence lateral, cymose-corymbiform, paniculate-corymbiform, or spicate-paniculate, lax to dense. Flowers bisexual, 5-9-merous. Sepals connate at base. Corolla pink or white, sometimes with red or purple markings, campanulate or cupular; lobes partly connate at base, limb erect to spreading, membranous. Stamens 2 × as many as petals, inserted above corolla base, ca. 2 × as long as petals. Nectar scales cuneate to cuneate-spatulate-quadrate. Carpels erect, free, often hairy. Follicles erect, free, many seeded. Seeds striate.[36] [more]

Rracenia

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Rusbya

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Ruscus

Ruscus is a of six species of flowering plants in the family Ruscaceae, formerly classified in the family Liliaceae. The genus is native to western and southern Europe (north to southern England), Macaronesia, northwest Africa, and southwestern Asia east to the Caucasus. [more]

Salaxis

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Sarcodes

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Satyria

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Schoenorchis

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Scyphogyne

Semiramisia

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Seriphidium

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Silaum

Herbs, perennial, glabrous. Stem erect, solid, striate, base clothed in fibrous remnant sheaths. Leaves long-petiolate, 34-pinnate; ultimate segments broadly lanceolate to linear, acute. Umbels compound, terminal and lateral; bracts absent or few, linear, deciduous; bracteoles numerous. Calyx teeth minute, conspicuous. Petals yellow, outer reddish-tinged, ovate, midvein elevated on both surfaces, apex narrowly inflexed. Stylopodium low-conic; styles short, reflexed. Fruit ovoid-oblong to subcylindrical, glabrous; mericarps subpentagonal in cross section; ribs 5, acute, narrowly winged; vittae small, numerous, obscure when mature. Seed face plane. Carpophore 2-cleft to base.[37] [more]

Simocheilus

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Siphonandra

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Siphonostema

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Skimmia

Glabrous shrubs. Leaves simple, petiolate, alternate, glandular-punctate. Flowers polygamous, clustered in terminal panicles. Calyx 4-5-partite. Petals 4-5, oblong. Stamens 4-5. Ovary 2-5-locular; style stout or absent, stigma 2-5-lobed. Fruit a drupe, fleshy.[38] [more]

Socratesia

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Solidaster

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Sophoclesia

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Sphyrospermum

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Stachyurus

Morphological characters and geographic distribution are the same as those of the family.[39] [more]

Stemmacantha

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Stenocoelium

Herbs, perennial. Root rather thick. Stem inconspicuous or short-caulescent, base clothed with fibrous remnant sheaths. Basal leaves numerous, rosulate, petiolate, sheathing; blade 2-pinnate. Umbels compound, primary umbel terminal; bracts and bracteoles numerous, linear or linear-lanceolate, with short hairs, margins broadly white-membranous; rays stout, angular; umbellules many-flowered; lateral umbels smaller. Calyx teeth conspicuous, acute-triangular. Petals white, midrib violet, obovate, base cuneate, apex notched with a narrow incurved lobule, pubescent abaxially. Stylopodium short-conical; styles ca. 2 × stylopodium, reflexed. Fruit ovoid, slightly compressed dorsally; ribs thick-obtuse, very prominent, irregularly denticulate especially along ribs, denticles stiff-membranous or with stiffly scarious-processes and hairs; furrows narrow; vittae 1 in each furrow, 2 on commissure. Seed face plane. Carpophore 2-cleft to base.[40] [more]

Stokoeanthus

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Styphelia

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Symphysia

[more]

Sympieza

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Syncarpha

Syncarpha (Everlasting) is a of herbaceous flowering plants in the daisy family Asteraceae. The species are endemic to the Eastern Cape and Western Cape in South Africa. [more]

Syndesmanthus

Syringodea

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Tecophilaea

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Tepuia

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Tepuiac

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Thapsia

Thapsia is a genus of in the Helicarionidae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Thelaia

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Themistoclesia

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Therorhodion

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Thibaudia

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Thoracosperma

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Thylacospermum

Cushion shrubs, perennial. Taproot woody. Stems densely caespitose, becoming woody when old. Leaves densely imbricate, sessile, small; leaf blade ovate, small; stipules absent. Inflorescence a solitary flower in terminal leaf axil. Flower 5(or 4) -merous. Pedicel nearly absent. Sepals connate below middle, tube obconic. Petals entire. Stamens ca. 2 × as many as sepals; filaments glandular at base, inserted at disc edges. Ovary 1-loculed with several ovules; styles 3(or 2), linear. Fruit a capsule, globose, leathery, 6(or 4) -toothed, several seeded. Seeds reniform, large; testa spongy, ± smooth.[41] [more]

Tigridia

A genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]

Trichocereus

Echinopsis is a large of cacti native to South America, sometimes known as hedgehog cacti, sea-urchin cactus or Easter lily cactus. One small species, E. chamaecereus, is known as the peanut cactus. The 128 species range from large and treelike types to small globose cacti. The name derives from echinos hedgehog or sea urchin, and opsis appearance, a reference to these plants' dense coverings of spines. [more]

Trinia

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Tripetaleia

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Tritomodon

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Tsusiophyllum

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Unedo

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Urceolina

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Utleya

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Uva-Ursi

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Vacciniopsis

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Vaccinium

Shrubs or small trees, terrestrial or epiphytic. Leaves evergreen or deciduous, rarely pseudoverticillate, petiolate, margin entire or serrate. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, racemose, fasciculate, or solitary flowers. Bracts and bracteoles persistent or caducous, the latter small, basal, rarely apical; pedicel expanded towards apex or not, articulate, rarely continuous. Flowers 5-, rarely 4-merous. Calyx limb lobed or toothed. Corolla urceolate, campanulate, or tubular, lobed or toothed, usually to base of limb; lobes erect or recurved, mostly shorter than tube, rarely longer or petals apparently free. Stamens rarely 4, usually included; anthers with 2 spurs at anther-filament junction or not; thecae with tubules opening by a terminal pore or introrse slit. Disk annular. Ovary inferior, usually 8- or 10-pseudoloculed by false partitions; locule with many ovules; stigma inconspicuous, truncate. Fruit a several seeded globose berry. Seeds ovoid, small, testa hard or mucilaginous.[42] [more]

Vaccinum

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Villarsia

Villarsia is a of aquatic flowering plants in the family Menyanthaceae. The genus is named for the French botanist Dominique Villars (1745-1814). Villarsia are wetland plants with basal leaves. The inflorescence is a branched panicle with numerous flowers. Flowers are five-parted, either yellow or white, and the petals are adorned with wings. [more]

Vireya

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Vitis-Idaea

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Waldemaria

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Wissmannia

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Wulfenia

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X Phylliopsis

Xerobotrys

Xolisma

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Xylococcus

The Xylococcus may refer to: [more]

Zenobia

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

At least 17 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Zenobia.

More info about the Genus Zenobia may be found here.

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Footnotes

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  24. Theodore M. Barkley "Ligularia". in Flora of North America Vol. 20 Page 540, 542, 613. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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  31. Fu Dezhi, Orbélia R. Robinson "Paraquilegia". in Flora of China Vol. 6 Page 276. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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  34. Fang Mingyuan, Fang Ruizheng, He Mingyou, Hu Linzhen, Yang Hanbi, David F. Chamberlain "Rhododendron". in Flora of China Vol. 14 Page 260. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  35. Liang Song-jun, Minoru N. Tamura "Rohdea". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 239. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  36. Kunjun Fu, Hideaki Ohba & Michael G. Gilbert "Rosularia". in Flora of China Vol. 8 Page 217. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  37. Sheh Meng-lan, Mark F. Watson "Silaum". in Flora of China Vol. 14 Page 134. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  38. "Skimmia". in Flora of Pakistan Page 10. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  39. Qiner Yang & Peter Stevens "Stachyurus". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 138. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  40. Pu Fa-ting, Mark F. Watson "Stenocoelium". in Flora of China Vol. 14 Page 139. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  41. Lu Dequan, Michael G. Gilbert "Thylacospermum". in Flora of China Vol. 6 Page 38. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  42. Fang Rhui-cheng, Peter F. Stevens "Vaccinium". in Flora of China Vol. 14 Page 476. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

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