View source for Agarista ← Agarista You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Agarista |accepted_authority=D. Don ex G. Don |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Gen. Hist. |place=3: 788, 837. 1834 , }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae;Agarista |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>[[Agarista]]</div></div> |etymology=Greek mythological daughter of Clisthenes, alluding to beauty of flowers |volume=Volume 8 |mention_page=page 370, 376 |treatment_page=page 499 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees. <b>Stems</b> erect; twigs glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> persistent; blade ovate, coriaceous, margins entire or serrate, plane, surfaces often multicellular, long-stalked stipitate-glandular-hairy, otherwise unicellular-hairy on midvein [covering abaxial surface]; venation reticulodromous (reticulum rather dense and with all orders ± equally prominent). <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary [terminal] racemes [panicles], 10–20-flowered, (produced just before flowering). <b>Pedicels</b>: bracteoles 2, near base to ± midpoint. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 5, slightly connate, deltate; petals 5, connate for most of their lengths, white [red], corolla cylindric [urceolate], lobes short; stamens 10, included; filaments geniculate, flattened, hairy, without spurs; anthers without awns, dehiscent by elliptic pores; pistil 5-carpellate; ovary 5-locular; stigma (slightly exserted), truncate to capitate, obscurely lobed, (minutely papillose). <b>Fruits</b> capsular, subglobose to short-ovoid, (with unthickened sutures), dry. <b>Seeds</b> 120–250, narrowly oblong to pyramidal or angular-obovoid; testa cells elongate. <b>x</b> = 12.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=se United States;Mexico;Central America;South America;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands (including Madagascar). |discussion=<p>Agauria (de Candolle) Bentham & Hooker f.; Leucothoë D. Don subg. Agarista (D. Don ex G. Don) Drude</p><!-- --><p>Species 31 (1 in the flora).</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=judd1984a |text=Judd, W. S. 1984. A taxonomic revision of the American species of Agarista (Ericaceae). J. Arnold Arbor. 65: 255–342. }} }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Agarista |author=Walter S. Judd |authority=D. Don ex G. Don |rank=genus |parent rank=subfamily |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Ericaceae |distribution=se United States;Mexico;Central America;South America;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands (including Madagascar). |reference=judd1984a |publication title=Gen. Hist. |publication year= |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_974.xml |subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae |genus=Agarista }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Ericaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Template:Treatment/Reference (view source) Return to Agarista.