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Family:

Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)

Accepted Name:

This name is currently accepted.

Description:

Description: Twigs glabrous to moderately pubescent. Leaf blades obovate to elliptic, 1.5-3.5(-4.5) x 0.5-2(-3) cm, usually slightly to moderately recurved, length/width quotient 1.5-3(-3.5); base narrowly to broadly cuneate; apex acute to rounded; margin not revolute apically to clearly so, slightly to strongly revolute basally; midvein usually depressed, at least a few 2o veins per leaf slightly to strongly depressed. Pedicels glabrous to sparsely pubescent.

Distribution: Endemic to Cuba (Prov. Oriente, Sierra de Nipe), in thickets, stream sides, grassy areas, and Pinus cubensis savannas, at ca. 450-800 m elev. Flowering chiefly March to July.

Type: Cuba. Oriente: Pinal, nr. Santiago de Cuba, May 1844, J. Linden 1778 (holotype, P; isotypes, L (from frag. at P), P, W).

Illustration: Judd (1995), fig. 26.

Flora and Monograph Treatment(s):

Lyonia glandulosa (A.Rich.) Urb. var. glandulosa: [Article] Luteyn, James L., et al. 1995. Ericaceae, Part II. The Superior-Ovaried Genera (Monotropoideae, Pyroloideae, Rhododendroideae, and Vaccinioideae P.P.). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 66: 560.