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Menziesia aleutica

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Type? of Phyllodoce aleutica (Spreng.) A.Heller [family ERICACEAE]
Type? of Phyllodoce aleutica (Spreng.) A.Heller [family ERICACEAE]
Type? of Phyllodoce aleutica (Spreng.) A.Heller [family ERICACEAE]
Type? of Menziesia aleutica Spreng. [family ERICACEAE]
Type? of Menziesia aleutica Spreng. [family ERICACEAE]
Type? of Phyllodoce aleutica (Spreng.) A.Heller [family ERICACEAE]
Type? of Phyllodoce aleutica (Spreng.) A.Heller [family ERICACEAE]
Type? of Phyllodoce aleutica (Spreng.) A.Heller [family ERICACEAE]
Type? of Phyllodoce aleutica (Spreng.) A.Heller [family ERICACEAE]
Type? of Phyllodoce aleutica (Spreng.) A.Heller [family ERICACEAE]
Type? of Menziesia aleutica Spreng. [family ERICACEAE]
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Identification
Phyllodoce aleutica (Spreng.) A.Heller [family ERICACEAE ] Verified by Montes de Oca, P., 2011 Menziesia aleutica Spreng. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Montes de Oca, P., 2011
Related name
  • Menziesia aleutica
  • Phyllodoce aleutica
Common name
  • Aleutian mountain heather, Flora of North America Vol. 8

Flora

Entry for Phyllodoce aleutica (Sprengel) A. Heller [family ERICACEAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 8,
Names
Phyllodoce aleutica (Sprengel) A. Heller [family ERICACEAE], Muhlenbergia, 1: 1. 1900 ,
Menziesia aleutica Sprengel [family ERICACEAE], Syst. Veg., 2: 202. 1825
Treatment Author(s)
John G. Packer
A. Joyce Gould
Information
Plants ascending or erect, branched, 1–2.5 dm; young branches glandular, older branches glabrous. Leaves spreading, not imbricate; blade linear, 4–12 × 1–1.1 mm, margins serrulate, surfaces often glandular. Inflorescences umbellate or corymbiform, 1–14-flowered. Pedicels 10 mm, glandular; bracteoles 2. Flowers nodding; sepals linear to linear-lanceolate, 2.5–3.5 mm, margins ciliate, glandular-hairy abaxially; corolla yellow or yellowish green, urceolate, constricted at mouth, 5–8 mm, glabrous, lobes reflexed, ca. 1 mm; stamens 9–10, included; filaments 1.5–2 mm, glabrous; anthers brown on drying, 0.3–0.5 mm; ovary globose, 1.5–2 mm, glandular-hairy; style included, 2–3 mm. Capsules 5-valved, broadly ovoid, 3–4 × 2.5–3.5 mm, glandular-hairy.
Phenology
Flowering Jun–Aug
Altitude range
0–1700 m
Distribution
e Asia.USA Alaska
Discussion
E. Hultén (1941–1950, vol. 8) reported hybrids between Phyllodoce aleutica and P. caerulea from the Aleutian Islands, and between P. aleutica and P. granduliflora from the Alaska mainland.

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