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|accepted_name=Epigaea
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 395. 1753
|year=1753
}}{{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 186. 1754 ,
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|common_names=Trailing arbutus
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Ericoideae;Epigaea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ericaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Ericaceae subfam. Ericoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Epigaea]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek epi-, upon, and gaia, earth, alluding to creeping habit
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 370, 374, 449
|treatment_page=page 475
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs.</b> Stems creeping or prostrate; twigs coarsely hirsute (especially new growth). <b>Leaves</b> persistent, alternate; petiole present; blade coriaceous, margins entire. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary or terminal, spikes or dense racemes, 2–6(–10)-flowered; perulae absent. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual or unisexual (functionally dioecious), radially symmetric; sepals 5, distinct, (imbricate); petals 5, connate for ca. 1/2 their lengths, corolla ± deciduous, ± salverform; stamens 10, included; anthers without awns, dehiscent by longitudinal slits; ovary 5-locular; style included; stigma 5-lobed. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, depressed-globose, dehiscence septicidal. <b>Seeds</b> ca. 100, ovoid to globose, not winged, not tailed; testa foveolate. <b>x</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;e;sw Asia.
|discussion=<p>Orphanidesia Boissier & Balansa</p><!--
--><p>Species 3 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Epigaea comprises E. repens in eastern North America, E. asiatica Maximowicz in eastern Asia, and E. gaultherioides (Boissier & Balansa) Takhtajan in southwestern Asia (Caucasus region).</p><!--
--><p>The species of Epigaea are infrequently cultivated; they are difficult to establish and maintain (M. A. Dirr 1998).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=clay1981a
|text=Clay, K. and N. C. Ellstrand. 1981. Stylar polymorphism in Epigaea repens, a dioecious species. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club. 108: 305–310.
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|id=clay1983a
|text=Clay, K. 1983. Myrmecochory in the trailing arbutus (Epigaea repens L.). Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 110: 166–169.
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|id=lhotska1988a
|text=Lhotska, M. and Z. Seibert. 1988. Epigaea L. Skalnicky 19(4): 121–126.
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name=Epigaea
|author=Walter S. Judd;Kathleen A. Kron
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ericaceae
|distribution=North America;e;sw Asia.
|reference=clay1981a;clay1983a;lhotska1988a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_927.xml
|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Ericoideae
|genus=Epigaea
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