Gaultheria Linnaeus (1753: 395)
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.564.2.2 |
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2. Gaultheria Linnaeus (1753: 395) View in CoL .
Type:— Gaultheria procumbens Linnaeus (1753: 395) View in CoL
Subshrubs erectly branched. Leaves alternate, spiraled, usually not overlapping, papery to coriaceous, flat; petiole robust; blade margin serrate; venation brochidodromous; apex without gland. Pseudoracemes leafy apically, sometimes solitary axillary flowers. Flowers 5-merous; calyx lobes connate at base, becoming fleshy and accrescent, lobes long or short; corolla gamopetalous, campanulate to urceolate; stamens 8–10; filaments erect, papillose; anthers 2-aristate, dorsifix, dehiscence poricidal; ovary superior, 4-5-locular, multiovulate. Fruit a loculicidal capsule, frequently globose, commonly involved by the calyx; seeds ovoid or angulate, laterally long.
The genus Gaultheria in Rio Grande do Sul comprises two species distributed in the highland grasslands of the Campos de Cima da Serra ( Figs. 16 C, D View FIGURE 16 ), mainly in peat bogs, riverside grasslands, among rock outcrops, close to cloud forest edges, in herbaceous and/or shrubby vegetation and associated with hillsides near the border with Santa Catarina state ( Figs. 12 A–B View FIGURE 12 ; 14 A View FIGURE 14 ) .
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