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|accepted_name=Gaylussacia brachycera
|accepted_authority=(Michaux) A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s.
|place=3: 54. 1846 ,
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|common_names=Box huckleberry
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Vaccinium brachycerum
|authority=Michaux
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication_place=1: 234. 1803
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Buxella brachycera
|authority=(Michaux) Small
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae;Gaylussacia;Gaylussacia brachycera
|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 class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Gaylussacia brachycera]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 530, 531
|treatment_page=page 532
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>2–4 dm, forming small to extensive colonies; branches spreading or procumbent; twigs of current season pale green to grayish brown, (strongly angled), puberulent. <b>Leaves</b> persistent; petiole 0.5–3 mm; blade pale green abaxially, shiny dark green adaxially, ovate, 1–2.5 × 0.5–1.3 cm, coriaceous, base rounded, margins crenate or serrulate, (revolute), apex obtuse, without resinous dots, surfaces glabrous adaxially, glabrous or puberulent along midvein and near blade base. <b>Inflorescences</b> spreading, 2–5-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary, ebracteate, 0.5–1 cm, puberulent. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.5–3 mm, glabrous; bracteoles (early deciduous), 1–3, (ovate), 2–4 mm, (margins ciliate). <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 4–5, 0.3–0.5 mm, glabrous; petals 4–5, corolla white to pink, campanulate-urceolate, 4 mm, lobes broadly deltate to rounded, 0.5–1.5 mm; filaments 1–1.5 mm, glabrous; anthers included, 1–1.5 mm, thecae not divergent distally; ovary glabrous. <b>Drupes</b> juicy, sweet, light blue, 6–8 mm diam., glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> 1–1.5 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Upland or montane woods
|elevation=(10-)200-1000 m
|distribution=Del.;Ky.;Md.;N.C.;Pa.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Gaylussacia brachycera</i> is a dwarf evergreen shrub that forms large, solid-mat, self-sterile colonies, each one appearing to consist of a single clone that may extend over more than one hectare. One colony in Perry County, Pennsylvania, is about 1.5 kilometers wide; it appears to be a single clone that is over 12,000 years old and has been labeled as the oldest living thing in the world.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=pooler2008a
|text=Pooler, M., R. Nicholson, and A. Vandergrift. 2008. Clonal fidelity in large colonies of Gaylussacia brachycera Gray (box huckleberry) assessed by DNA fingerprinting. N. E. Naturalist 15: 67–74.
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|id=wilbur2004a
|text=Wilbur, R. L. and S. Bloodworth. 2004. Notes on the box huckleberry, Gaylussacia brachycera (Ericaceae), and its unexpected presence in North Carolina. Rhodora 106: 371–377.
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name=Gaylussacia brachycera
|authority=(Michaux) A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Buxella brachycera
|basionyms=Vaccinium brachycerum
|family=Ericaceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Upland or montane woods
|elevation=(10-)200-1000 m
|distribution=Del.;Ky.;Md.;N.C.;Pa.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=pooler2008a;wilbur2004a
|publication title=Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s.
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_1036.xml
|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae
|genus=Gaylussacia
|species=Gaylussacia brachycera
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