Contains 17 genera and 33 accepted taxa overall.
This family is completely databased for all specimens.
Characteristics
ERICACEAE
Dicot
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Classification
ERICALES
ERICACEAE
Genera
| Genus | Common Name | Taxa Count | Herbarium Specimens | Photos |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agarista | FLORIDA HOBBLEBUSH | 1 | ||
| Bejaria | BEJARIA | 1 | ||
| Ceratiola | FLORIDA ROSEMARY; SAND HEATH | 1 | ||
| Chimaphila | PRINCE'S PINE | 1 | ||
| Epigaea | TRAILING ARBUTUS | 1 | ||
| Eubotrys | 1 | |||
| Gaylussacia | HUCKLEBERRY | 3 | ||
| Hypopitys | 1 | |||
| Kalmia | LAUREL | 2 | ||
| Leucothoe | DOGHOBBLE | 1 | ||
| Lyonia | STAGGERBUSH | 5 | ||
| Monotropa | INDIANPIPE | 1 | ||
| Monotropsis | PYGMYPIPES | 1 | ||
| Oxydendrum | SWAMP CRANBERRY | 1 | ||
| Pieris | FETTERBUSH | 1 | ||
| Rhododendron | RHODODENDRON | 5 | ||
| Vaccinium | BLUEBERRY | 6 |
Identification Key
1. Non-photosynthetic, mycoheterotrophic ephemeral herb; leaves non-green, scale-like
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1. Photosynthetic, persistent vine, subshrub, shrub, or tree; leaves green, with an expanded blade or needle-like
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2. Flower or fruit solitary on the stem
2. Flower or fruit 2 or more (rarely solitary) per stem
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3. Stem white to red, rarely purplish red; petals free, usually hairy; ovaries (4)5(6)-locular; fruits capsular; inflorescence axes fibrous, persistent after seed dispersal
3. Stem dark purple, violet, to brownish purple; petals connate most of their length, glabrous; ovaries 1-locular; fruits baccate (fleshy); inflorescence axes not fibrous, not persistent
4. Plant prostrate or trailing
4. Plant erect, ascending, or vining
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5. Plant dioecious; leaves linear; flower unisexual, with 2-3 sepals and 2-3 petals, free
5. Plant monoecious; leaves with an expanded blade, not linear; flower bisexual or unisexual, with 4-8 sepals and 4-8 petals, sometimes connate
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6. Mature plant usually <50 cm tall; stem usually with <13 leaves; leaf blade often starkly pale to whitish along veins; peduncle nearly half the height of the plant
6. Mature plant 20 cm to 35 m tall; stem usually with >13 leaves; leaf blade uniformly colored; peduncle not evident or only a very small portion of the plant height
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7. Ovary inferior; fruit a fleshy berry or drupe
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7. Ovary superior; fruit a dry capsule
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8. Leaf blade lower surface gland-dotted, or stipitate-glandular and margins entire; pistil 5-10-carpellate; ovary 5- or 10-locular; fruit drupaceous
8. Leaf blade lower surface eglandular, or stipitate-glandular and usually at least some margins serrate; pistil 4-5-carpellate; ovary 4-5-locular; fruit a berry
9. Stem often persistently pilose; petals free, sticky
9. Stem glabrous, pubescent, to pilose; petals connate for ca. ½ or more of their length, not markedly sticky
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10. Leaf blades 0.5-1.4 cm long
10. Leaf blades 2-20 cm long
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11. Leaf blades ferrugineous-lepidote
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11. Leaf blades not lepidote
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12. Corolla urceolate (urn-shaped); capsules loculicidal
12. Corolla rotate or not urceolate; capsules septicidal
13. Leaf blade margins entire, the tip mostly obtuse, acute, to acuminate, sometimes stipitate-glandular
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13. Leaf blade margins toothed (usually at least some on plant, sometimes subtly toothed) or entire with an abrupt to tapered fine-pointed acuminate apex, if stipitate-glandular then leaf blades toothed
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14. Corolla urceolate (urn-shaped); capsules loculicidal
14. Corolla rotate or not urceolate; capsules septicidal
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15. Branching mostly alternate and spaced; corolla radially symmetric, scarcely forming free lobes, tube indistinct; anthers included; fruit width and length subequal or shorter than wide
15. Branching often pseudoverticillate; corolla bilaterally symmetric, with spreading free lobes, forming a tube below the lobes; anthers strongly exserted
16. Trees to 25(35) m tall; petioles 0.8-2.8 cm long; larger leaf blades 9-20 cm long, 3.5-6.5 cm wide;
16. Vines, or shrubs to small trees to 7 m tall; petioles 0.1-1 cm long; leaf blades 5-11 cm long, 1.5-5 cm wide
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17. Vines or shrubs; petiole stout, thicker than the blade midrib; leaf blade margins revolute
17. Shrubs; petiole stout or slender; leaf blade margins not revolute or scarcely so
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18. Pith chambered; leaf blade secondary veins and reticulate veins similarly pronounced and scarcely differentiated; pedicels 5-13 mm long
18. Pith solid; leaf blade secondary veins pronounced and unlike obscure reticulate venation; pedicels 1-4 mm long
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19. Leaves persistent; petiole 5-10 mm long; leaf blade margin thickened or slightly revolute, larger blades mostly with 6-12 major secondary veins on each side; inflorescence to 4 cm long; fruit 4-6 mm wide
19. Leaves deciduous to semi-persistent; petiole 1-4 mm long; leaf blade margin not thickened, larger blades mostly with 4-7 major secondary veins on each side; inflorescence to 25 cm long; fruit 2-4 mm wide
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20. Leaf blade lower surface much paler than the upper surface; inflorescence often leafy; corolla 2-4.5 mm long, subequal to the pedicel; anther without awns; capsules with clearly thickened sutures; seeds ca. 100-300 per fruit
20. Leaf blade lower surface slightly paler than the upper surface; inflorescence not leafy; corolla 6-9 mm long, longer than the pedicel; anthers 4-awned; capsule sutures not noticeably thickened; seeds ca. 5-10 per fruit