View source for Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae

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|accepted_name=Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae
|accepted_authority=Arnott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=M. Napier, Encycl. Brit. ed. 7
|place=5: 118. 1832
|year=1832
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae
|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>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 370, 373, 507
|treatment_page=page 496
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs,</b> shrubs, vines, or trees, usually multicellular-hairy (margins of leaves usually glandular-hairy), or sometimes absent (<i>Andromeda</i>); bark smooth or furrowed, not flaky. <b>Stems</b> erect, arching, spreading, creeping, or procumbent. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous or persistent, alternate, sometimes pseudoverticillate (<i>Pieris</i>); petiole usually present, sometimes absent (some species of <i>Vaccinium</i>); blade plane, abaxial groove absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> usually axillary, sometimes terminal, usually panicles or racemes, sometimes corymbs or fascicles, sometimes solitary flowers, (borne on leafy twigs, except <i>Zenobia</i> on leafless twigs); perulae absent; bracts much shorter than sepals (sometimes absent). <b>Flowers</b> pendulous; perianth and androecium hypogynous or epigynous (<i>Gaylussacia</i>, <i>Vaccinium</i>); sepals (4-)5[-8]; petals 4-5(-6), connate (rarely distinct or nearly so in some species of <i>Vaccinium</i>), corolla deciduous, campanulate, cylindric, or urceolate, lobes usually much shorter (sometimes longer) than tube; intrastaminal nectary disc absent or present; stamens 8-10[-16]; anthers dehiscent by terminal pores or short slits; ovary 5- or 10-locular; placentation axile; style straight. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, dehiscence loculicidal, or baccate or drupaceous, indehiscent. <b>Seeds</b> 2-300, distinct, ovoid or obovoid to ellipsoid, lanceoloid, or conic, to angular or wedge- or crescent-shaped, usually not winged, sometimes slightly winged or tailed.</span><!--

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|distribution=Nearly worldwide;especially arctic;temperate;and alpine areas;also very diverse in neotropical cloud forests.
|discussion=<p>Genera 46, species ca. 1600 (12 genera, 58 species in the flora)</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=kron1999a
|text=Kron, K. A., W. S. Judd, and D. M. Crayn. 1999. Phylogenetic analyses of Andromedeae (Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae). Amer. J. Bot. 86: 1290–1300.
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|id=lems1964a
|text=Lems, K. 1964. Evolutionary studies in the Ericaceae. II. Leaf anatomy as a phylogenetic index in the Andromedeae. Bot. Gaz. 125: 178–186.
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|id=lens2004a
|text=Lens, F. et al. 2004. Comparative wood anatomy of the blueberry tribe (Vaccineae, Ericaceae s.l.). Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 91: 566–592.
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|id=middleton1991a
|text=Middleton, D. J. 1991. Taxonomic studies in the Gaultheria group of genera of the tribe Andromedeae (Ericaceae). Edinburgh J. Bot. 48: 283–306.
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name=Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae
|author=Gordon C. Tucker
|authority=Arnott
|rank=subfamily
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ericaceae
|distribution=Nearly worldwide;especially arctic;temperate;and alpine areas;also very diverse in neotropical cloud forests.
|reference=kron1999a;lems1964a;lens2004a;middleton1991a
|publication title=M. Napier, Encycl. Brit. ed. 7
|publication year=1832
|special status=
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|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae
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