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|accepted_name=Agarista
|accepted_authority=D. Don ex G. Don
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Hist.
|place=3: 788, 837. 1834 ,
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|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
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--><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><!--

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|distribution=se United States;Mexico;Central America;South America;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands (including Madagascar).
|discussion=<p>Agauria (de Candolle) Bentham & Hooker f.; <i>Leucothoë</i> D. Don subg. <i>Agarista</i> (D. Don ex G. Don) Drude</p><!--
--><p>Species 31 (1 in the flora).</p>
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|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.
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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=
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|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae
|genus=Agarista
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