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|accepted_name=Gaylussacia
|accepted_authority=Kunth in A. von Humboldt et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. Gen. Sp.
|place=3(fol.): 215
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|place=3(qto.): 275
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|title=plate
|place=257. 1819, name conserved ,
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|common_names=Huckleberry
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae;Gaylussacia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ericaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Gaylussacia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac, 1778–1850, French chemist
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 372, 374, 496, 515, 531
|treatment_page=page 530
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs </b>or shrubs. <b>Stems</b> erect; twigs glabrous or hairy, sometimes glandular. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous (<i>G. brachycera</i> persistent); blade obovate or ovate to oblong or oblanceolate, membranous or coriaceous, margins entire or crenate (sometimes serrulate) [glandular-crenate], plane or revolute, glabrous or hairy; venation reticulodromous. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary or terminal racemes, 2–8-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals (4–)5, sometimes vestigial, connate basally, deltate (straight or inflexed in fruit); petals 4–5, connate for nearly their entire lengths, greenish white or white to pink or orange to red, corolla urceolate, campanulate, or campanulate-conic, lobes much shorter than tube; stamens 10, included, (slightly shorter than corolla); filaments straight, flattened, glabrous or pilose, without spurs; anthers without awns, dehiscent through narrowly oblong, terminal pores; pistil 5–10-carpellate; ovary inferior, 5- or 10-locular; stigma capitate. <b>Fruits</b> drupaceous, ovoid to globose, fleshy. <b>Seeds</b> (pyrenes) 10, ellipsoid; testa stony, papillose (smooth in <i>G. ursina</i>). <b>x</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|distribution=e North America;South America (c;n Andes;e;se Brazil).
|discussion=<p>Decachaena (Torrey & A. Gray) Lindley; Lasiococcus Small</p><!--
--><p>Species ca. 50 (10 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The genus <i>Gaylussacia</i> was organized into three sections by H. Sleumer (1967). The sections are: sect. <i>Vitis</i>-idaea (species 1) with coriaceous, persistent leaves lacking resinous dots; sect. <i>Gaylussacia</i> (species 2–5) with deciduous leaves with some stipitate-glandular hairs; and sect. Decamerium (species 6–10) with deciduous leaves and sessile glands. Molecular investigation by J. W. Floyd (2002) suggested these sections may not be entirely natural, and that the origin of the genus may be in North America, despite the greater diversity in South America.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=camp1941a
|text=Camp, W. H. 1941. Studies in the Ericales: A review of the North American Gaylussacieae; with remarks on the origin and migration of the group. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 68: 531–551.
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|id=floyd2002a
|text=Floyd, J. W. 2002. Phylogenetic and biogeographic patterns in Gaylussacia (Ericaceae) based on morphological, nuclear DNA, and chloroplast DNA variation. Syst. Bot. 27: 99–115.
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|id=sleumer1967a
|text=Sleumer, H. 1967. Die Gattung Gaylussacia H.B.K. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 86: 309–384.
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades 1-2.5 cm, margins crenate or serrulate, coriaceous, not sessile-glandular; leaves persistent [sect. Vitis-idaea].
|[[Gaylussacia brachycera|Gaylussacia brachycera]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades 1.9-6 cm, margins entire, membranous to subcoriaceous, sessile-glandular (or scattered stipitate-glandular-hairy); leaves deciduous [sect. Gaylussacia]
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Inflorescence bracts equaling or longer than pedicels, persistent; sepals, pedicels, bracts, and/or leaf blades stipitate-glandular-hairy
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Inflorescence bracts shorter than pedicels, early-deciduous; sepals, pedicels, bracts, and/or leaf blades not stipitate-glandular-hairy [sect. Decamerium]
|[[#key-0-6| > 6]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Corollas 3-5 mm; plants 1-3(-4) dm.
|[[Gaylussacia dumosa|Gaylussacia dumosa]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Corollas 5.5-8.5 mm; plants 3-10(-15) dm
|[[#key-0-4| > 4]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Corollas 5.5-6.5 mm; anthers 2.5-3.2 mm; peaty montane seepage bogs, w North Carolina.
|[[Gaylussacia orocola|Gaylussacia orocola]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Corollas 6.5-8.5 mm; anthers 2.5-4.3 mm
|[[#key-0-5| > 5]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Adaxial leaf surfaces not sessile-glandular; ovary hairs 1-1.5 mm; e Gulf coastal plain, s Alabama, n Florida, sw Georgia, se Louisiana, s Mississippi.
|[[Gaylussacia mosieri|Gaylussacia mosieri]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Adaxial leaf surfaces sessile-glandular; ovary hairs 0.3-0.5 mm; northeastern range, south to Maryland and Delaware, disjunct to North Carolina and South Carolina
|[[Gaylussacia bigeloviana|Gaylussacia bigeloviana]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Leaf blades sessile-glandular-hairy on both surfaces; racemes 0.5-1.5 cm.
|[[Gaylussacia baccata|Gaylussacia baccata]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Leaf blades sessile-glandular hairy on abaxial surface only; racemes 0.7-4.5 cm
|[[#key-0-7| > 7]]
|-id=key-0-7
|7
|Leaf blades membranous, green to yellowish green or reddish green adaxially, apex acute to acuminate.
|[[Gaylussacia ursina|Gaylussacia ursina]]
|-id=key-0-7
|7
|Leaf blades subcoriaceous, green to glaucescent adaxially, apex rounded or obtuse
|[[#key-0-8| > 8]]
|-id=key-0-8
|8
|Twigs of current season glabrous or glabrate; leaf blades glabrous or hairy abaxially, glaucescent; plants 7.5-20 dm; east coast, south to e Georgia.
|[[Gaylussacia frondosa|Gaylussacia frondosa]]
|-id=key-0-8
|8
|Twigs of current season densely hairy (hairs short); leaf blades sparsely to densely hairy abaxially, glaucous or glaucescent; plants 2-20 dm; se North Carolina and southward in coastal plain and west to Louisiana
|[[#key-0-9| > 9]]
|-id=key-0-9
|9
|Leaf blades 2.5-4 × 1-2 cm, surfaces glabrous or sparsely short-hairy (longer hairs ca. 0.1 mm), glaucous abaxially; calyces glaucous; plants 2-6(-10) dm.
|[[Gaylussacia nana|Gaylussacia nana]]
|-id=key-0-9
|9
|Leaf blades 2.5-6 × 2-3 cm, surfaces densely short-hairy (longer hairs ca. 0.2 mm), glaucescent abaxially; calyces not glaucous; plants 7.5-20 dm.
|[[Gaylussacia tomentosa|Gaylussacia tomentosa]]
|}
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name=Gaylussacia
|author=Bruce A. Sorrie;Alan S. Weakley;Gordon C. Tucker
|authority=Kunth in A. von Humboldt et al.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ericaceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|distribution=e North America;South America (c;n Andes;e;se Brazil).
|reference=camp1941a;floyd2002a;sleumer1967a
|publication title=in A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. Gen. Sp.;;plate
|publication year=;;
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|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae
|genus=Gaylussacia
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