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Cassiope D.Don

Mountain heather (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Ericales > Ericaceae

Characteristics

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.
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Stems decumbent to prostrate, spreading, ascending, or erect, mat-forming, glabrous or hairy. Leaves: blade canoe-shaped, without abaxial groove, or dorsiventrally expanded by marginal outgrowths forming abaxial groove, margins entire, thin or scarious, surfaces glabrous or glandular or hairy. Pedicels erect with deflexed tip at anthesis, elongating (or not) and straight in fruit; bracteoles absent. Flowers: sepals ± distinct, oblong-ovate; filaments not enlarged at base; anthers with awns; ovary subglobose to ovoid; style cylindric; stigma capitate. Capsules borne on erect pedicels, subglobose to ovoid. x = 13.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
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Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-10

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Images

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Distribution

Cassiope world distribution map, present in China and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:14656-1
WFO ID wfo-4000006915
COL ID 3J52
BDTFX ID 122698
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Cassiope

Lower taxons

Cassiope abbreviata Cassiope argyrotricha Cassiope ericoides Cassiope fastigiata Cassiope fujianensis Cassiope tetragona Cassiope wardii Cassiope lycopodioides Cassiope membranifolia Cassiope myosuroides Cassiope nana Cassiope palpebrata Cassiope pectinata Cassiope redowskii Cassiope selaginoides Cassiope x anadyrensis Cassiope mertensiana
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