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Family:

Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)

Accepted Name:

This name is currently accepted.

Common Names:

machimbí, pegajoso, uvo, albricias, mortiño, uvito

Description:

Description: Erect or rarely clambering shrub. Petioles and midrib of leaf lamina eglandular above. Floral bract and bracteoles 3-9, usually lamina densely pilose becoming glabrate, always distally ciliate; pedicels weakly to densely puberulent (or puberulence lacking) or short-pilose, and also weakly to densely strigose, eglandular. Calyx lobes ciliate and often also marginally glandular-fimbriate; corolla urceolate to cylindric-urceolate, not gibbous at base, glabrous (weakly short-pilose or moderately pilose) without, white; stamens 3-4 mm long; filaments 2.3-3.3 mm long, glabrous to densely pilose; anthers 0.7-1.3 mm long; ovary usually densely short-pilose; style 3.5-4.8 mm long, glabrous to short-pilose basally.

Distribution: Ranging from central coastal Venezuela to southern Colombia where it is common in páramo and at higher elevation montane forests. Commonly in association with Gaultheria glomerata, G. hapalotricha, G. alnifolia, and Pernettya prostrata at elevations of (1750-)2200-3400(-3800) m. Flowering and fruiting throughout the year.

Common names: Venezuela: albricias (Mérida); Colombia: mortiño (Antioquia), machimbí (Cauca), uvito (Huila, Norte de Santander), uvo, pegajoso (Norte de Santander)

Cultivated: E.

Flora and Monograph Treatment(s):

Gaultheria buxifolia Willd. var. buxifolia: [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.