| Gaultheria miqueliana Takeda | |||
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| Family | Ericaceae — APG family: Ericaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Gaultheria pyroloides Miq. | ||
| Description | Dwarf shrub with ascending, finely puberulent, terete branches; leaves coriaceous, elliptical to obovate, serrate-crenate, with glands in incisions, shiny and glabrous above, paler beneath; inflorescence few-flowered; calyx lobes triangular, more or less glandular, puberulent, especially in margin; corolla ovoid to urceolate; ovary glabrous; fruit globose, white. | ||
| Ecology | Mountain slopes. Described from Japan. A single specimen known, from north- eastern Kiska Island. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.