Taxon Profile:

	The Plant List
	International Plant Name Index
	Tropicos
	Catalogue of Life
	Global Biodiversity Information Facility
	JSTOR Types
	JSTOR
	BHL
	Encyclopedia of Life
	WikiSpecies
	Google Scholar
	PubMed
	Morphbank
	IUCN
	National Center for Biotechnology Information
	Barcode of Life

Family:

Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)

Accepted Name:

This name is currently accepted.

Description:

Description: Shrub to 2(-3) m tall; twigs glabrous to densely pubescent. Leaves with petiole 1.5-5 mm long; blade 1.2-4(-5) x 0.4-1.8(-2.8) cm, margin not (slighlty) sinuous; adaxial and abaxial surfaces glabrous to sparsely pubescent on midvein. Inflorescences axillary racemes (axillary panicles, or terminal racemes or panicles) to 2-7(-12) cm long; rachis glabrous to densely pubescent. Flowers with corolla 7.5-13 x 3-5 mm; filaments 4.8-6.5 mm long. Capsules 3-4 x 5.5-6 mm, placentae central (to subapical); seeds 0.8-1.3 mm long.

Distribution: Endemic to SE Brazil (Paraná, Santa Catarina, and adjacent regions of São Paulo), in gallery forests along rivers or streams, bogs, thickets or thicket-margins, sandy or rocky campo, at (110-)780-1500 m alt. Flowering (August) September through November (December).

Illustration: Judd (1995), fig. 8.

Type: Brazil. Minas Gerais: Antônio Pereira (see Meissner in Martius, 1863), Sellow 4830 (holotype, B, destroyed; frag. of holotype, F, NY; photos of holotype, F, GH).

Taxonomic notes: Agarista mariana Linnaeus =Lyonia mariana (Linnaeus) D. Don cited in synonymy

Flora and Monograph Treatment(s):

Agarista pulchella Cham. ex G.Don var. pulchella: [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.