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Family:

Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)

Accepted Name:

This name is currently accepted.

Description:

Description: Inflorescence (including rachis, pedicels, calyces, and corollas) glabrous and without glandular fimbriae (or fimbriae rarely located at junction of pedicel and calyx). Calyx with hypanthium basally apophysate, the apophysis margin smooth and slighlty flaring; lobes triangular, acute, at anthesis widely separate, marginally glandular callose with each side provided with a crescent-shaped gland and sometimes also bearing 1-2 fimbriae near sinus; sinuses acute or broadly rounded.

Distribution: Known from the eastern foothills of the Ecuadorian Andes in the vicinity of Cosanga (Napo Prov.), where it occurs in disturbed forest areas at elevations of 1375-2225 m, and also in eastern Peru at the Cerros del Sira (Huánuco Dept.) in dense elfin and cloud forest at 1585-2205 m.

Cultivated: ABG, E, NCSC, NY.

Flora and Monograph Treatment(s):

Cavendishia isernii Sleumer var. isernii: [Article] Luteyn, James L. 1983. Ericaceae--part I. Cavendishia. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 35: 1-290.