Oxycoccus microcarpus

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Common Names

Description

Family Ericaceae

Plants usually woody, or herbs, sometimes lacking chlorophyll. Leaves spiral , sometimes decussate, margin often toothed . Inflorescence racemose; bracteoles paired , basal. Flowers (4 or) 5-merous. Calyx imbricate. Corolla connate , imbricate. Stamens 10, sometimes with spurs or awns , dehiscing by pores , pollen in tetrads , rarely single. Ovary superior or inferior, placentation axile , rarely parietal , often many ovules per locule. Style ± as long as corolla, slender. Fruit a capsule or berry, rarely a drupe; calyx persistent.

About 125 genera and 4000 species: widely distributed in temperate and subarctic regions, also at high elevations in tropical regions ; 22 genera and 826 species (524 endemic) in China.

The Monotropoideae are here included in the Ericaceae; previously in FRPS (56: 157 216. 1990), they were treated as the Pyrolaceae. Chiogenes, recorded from China in FRPS (57(3) : 69 71. 1991), is here included in Gaultheria. Over the last half century, the Empetraceae have usually been separated from, but closely associated with, the Ericaceae. In their ecology, leaf morphology and insertion , rusts, embryology, stamen anatomy, etc. , they largely agree with that family . Molecular data place Empetrum and its relatives firmly within the Ericaceae, and in particular within the subfamily Ericoideae, in agreement with phytochemical and palynological data, and there they are best recognized as a separate tribe . There are distinctive features of the Empetreae that were responsible for their past familial status, e.g. , reduced perianth with separate members , low ovule number, enlarged stigmas, etc. However, these are likely to be derived features associated with wind pollination. See Kron et al. (Bot. Rev. 68: 335 423. 2002) and the recent treatment of the Ericaceae by Stevens et al. (in Kubitzki, Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. 6: 145 194. 2004) .

Several genera and many species are ornamentals . Some fruits of Vaccinium in N China are sweet and edible, but of no particular value to humans. Some species of Chamaedaphne, Craibiodendron, Leucothoë, Lyonia, Pieris, and Rhododendron contain more or less toxic diterpenes, which are harmful to humans or domestic animals.[1]

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,031 meters (0 to 6,663 feet).[2]

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Oxycoccus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 20 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

O. erectus · O. erythrocarpus · O. gigas · O. hispidulus · O. intermedius · O. japonicus · O. macrocarpos · O. macrocarpus · O. microcarpum · O. microcarpus (Cranberry) · O. ovalifolius · O. oxycoccos var. intermedius · O. oxycoccus · O. palustris · O. palustris microphylla · O. pusillus · O. quadripetala · O. quadripetalus · O. quadripetalus microphyllus · O. vulgaris

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Further Reading

• Acta Soc. pro Fauna et Flora Fennica. Helsinki, Societas. ENG url p. 134, p. 135, p. 136, p. 137, p. 17, p. 18, p. 19, p. 25, p. 302, p. 32, p. 36, p. 37, p. 39, p. 59, p. 6, p. 61, p. 63, p. 65, p. 67, p. 68, p. 69, p. 71, p. 9.
• Beihefte zum botanischen Centralblatt. Cassel: Verlag von Gebrder Gotlhelft, 1891-1904. GER url p. 190.
• Botanisches Zentralblatt; referierendes Organ für das Gesamtgebiet der Botanik. Jena [etc.]G. Fischer [etc.] GER url p. 272.
• Incrementa florae phaenogamae Rossicae / congregavit E.R. a Trautvetter. Petropoli: [s.l.], 1882-1884. LAT url p. 513.
• Just's botanischer jahresbericht. Systematisch geordnetes repertorium der botanischen literatur aller länder. Berlin, Gebr. Borntraeger, 1874-98; GER url p. 1093, p. 383, p. 385, p. 627, p. 802.
• Meddelanden af Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica. Helsingfors[Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica] SWE url p. 100, p. 101, p. 107, p. 112, p. 117, p. 118, p. 120, p. 123, p. 13, p. 134, p. 137, p. 147, p. 155, p. 167, p. 181, p. 239, p. 24, p. 241, p. 31, p. 34, p. 60, p. 71, p. 77, p. 79.
• North Atlantic biota and their history; a symposium held at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík, July 1962, under the auspices of the University of Iceland and the Museum of Natural History. Editors: Askell Löve and Doris Löve. Sponsored Oxford, New York, Pergamon Press, 1963 ENG url p. 315.
• Chou Yiliang & Zhou Ruichang. 1990. Pyrolaceae. In: Fang Wenpei & Hu Wenkuang, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 56: 157216
• Fang Rhuicheng, Yang Hanbi & Chin Tsenli. 1999. Ericaceae (1). In: Fang Rhuicheng, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 57(1): 1213
• Hsu Tingzhi, Gao Baochun, Fang Rhuicheng & Huang Shuhua. 1991. Ericaceae (3). In: Fang Rhuicheng, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 57(3): 1207
• Hu Wenkuang, Hu Lincheng, Fang Mingyuan & He Mingyou. 1994. Ericaceae (2). In: Hu Lincheng, Fang Mingyuan, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 57(2): 1438
• Ming Tien lu. 1980. Empetraceae. In: Cheng Mien & Ming Tien lu, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 45(1): 6062.

Notes

Contributors

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 26, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:

• Burke Museum: Vascular Plant Collection - University of Washington Herbarium (WTU)
• European Environment Agency: EUNIS
• Icelandic Institute of Natural History: Herbarium (AMNH)
• Icelandic Institute of Natural History: Herbarium (ICEL)
• Icelandic Institute of Natural History: Observational database of Icelandic plants
• Institute of Nature Conservation PAS: National System of Proetcted Areas
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo: Vascular Plant Herbarium, Oslo (O)
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo: Vascular Plants, Field notes, Oslo (O)
• University of Alaska Museum of the North: University of Alaska Museum of the North Herbarium (ALA)

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1672778
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13829356
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:858563-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2101162

Footnotes

1. Mingyuan Fang, Ruizheng Fang, Mingyou He, Linzheng Hu, Hanbi Yang, Haining Qin, Tianlu Min, David F. Chamberlain, Peter Stevens, Gary D. Wallace & Arne Anderberg "Ericaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 14 Page 242. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 585.290 meters (1,920.243 feet), Standard Deviation = 403.790 based on 1,246 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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