Chamaedaphne

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Ericaceae

• Scientific Name

  Chamaedaphne

• Description

  Genus Description - Fls 5-merous; cal deeply parted, persistent, closely subtended by 2 bractlets, the lobes imbricate; cor nearly cylindric, slightly narrowed at the throat; stamens 10, included; filaments flat; anthers oblong, each of the 2 pollen-sacs prolonged into an erect tube as long as the body and opening by a terminal or subterminal pore; ovary 5-locular, subtended by a 10-lobed disk; style elongate; stigma truncate; capsule depressed-globose, loculicidal; evergreen shrub with alternate lvs and numerous nodding, axillary fls forming a leafy raceme; stem and lower lf-surface and cal brown-lepidote. (Cassandra) Monospecific.

• Common Names

  leatherleaf