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Agarista
Family:
Ericaceae
Eric M Powell
FNA
Resources
Walter S. Judd in Flora of North America (vol. 8)
Shrubs or trees. Stems
erect; twigs glabrous.
Leaves
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).
Inflorescences
axillary [terminal] racemes [panicles], 10-20-flowered, (produced just before flowering).
Pedicels:
bracteoles 2, near base to ± midpoint.
Flowers:
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).
Fruits
capsular, subglobose to short-ovoid, (with unthickened sutures), dry.
Seeds
120-250, narrowly oblong to pyramidal or angular-obovoid; testa cells elongate.
x
= 12.
Species within checklist:
UF MAIN CAMPUS
Agarista populifolia
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