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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-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism growth form;whole_organism growth form"><b>Shrubs </b>or trees.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem orientation"><b>Stems </b>erect;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="twig pubescence">twigs glabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf duration"><b>Leaves </b>persistent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade shape;blade texture;margin architecture or shape;margin architecture or shape;margin shape">blade ovate, coriaceous, margins entire or serrate, plane, surfaces often multicellular, long-stalked stipitate-glandular-hairy, otherwise unicellular-hairy on midvein [covering abaxial surface];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="surface architecture;surface architecture;surface pubescence;surface pubescence;surface architecture">venation reticulodromous (reticulum rather dense and with all orders ± equally prominent).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="inflorescence architecture"><b>Inflorescences </b>axillary [terminal] racemes [panicles], 10–20-flowered, (produced just before flowering).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="bracteole quantity;base position"><b>Pedicels:</b> bracteoles 2, near base to ± midpoint.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="sepal quantity;sepal fusion;sepal shape"><b>Flowers:</b> sepals 5, slightly connate, deltate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="petal quantity;petal fusion;petal coloration;corolla shape;lobe height or length or size">petals 5, connate for most of their lengths, white [red], corolla cylindric [urceolate], lobes short;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="stamen quantity;stamen position">stamens 10, included;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="filament shape;filament shape;filament pubescence">filaments geniculate, flattened, hairy, without spurs;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="anther dehiscence;pore arrangement or shape">anthers without awns, dehiscent by elliptic pores;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="pistil architecture">pistil 5-carpellate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="ovary architecture or structure in adjective form">ovary 5-locular;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="flower shape or architecture;flower shape">stigma (slightly exserted), truncate to capitate, obscurely lobed, (minutely papillose).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="fruit architecture;fruit shape;fruit condition or texture"><b>Fruits </b>capsular, subglobose to short-ovoid, (with unthickened sutures), dry.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="seed quantity;seed shape"><b>Seeds </b>120–250, narrowly oblong to pyramidal or angular-obovoid;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties="">testa cells elongate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s19" data-properties="testa cell shape;x chromosome quantity">x = 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.; Leucothoë D. Don subg. Agarista (D. Don ex G. Don) Drude</p><!--
--><p>Species 31 (1 in the flora).</p>
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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=None
|publication title=Gen. Hist.
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V8/V8_974.xml
|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae
|genus=Agarista
|anther dehiscence=dehiscent
|base position=midpoint
|blade shape=ovate
|blade texture=coriaceous
|bracteole quantity=2
|corolla shape=cylindric
|filament pubescence=hairy
|filament shape=flattened;geniculate
|flower shape=lobed
|flower shape or architecture=truncate to capitate
|fruit architecture=capsular
|fruit condition or texture=dry
|fruit shape=subglobose;short-ovoid
|inflorescence architecture=10-20-flowered
|leaf duration=persistent
|lobe height or length or size=short
|margin architecture or shape=serrate;entire
|margin shape=plane
|ovary architecture or structure in adjective form=5-locular
|petal coloration=white
|petal fusion=connate
|petal quantity=5
|pistil architecture=5-carpellate
|pore arrangement or shape=elliptic
|seed quantity=120;250
|seed shape=narrowly oblong;pyramidal or angular-obovoid
|sepal fusion=connate
|sepal quantity=5
|sepal shape=deltate
|stamen position=included
|stamen quantity=10
|stem orientation=erect
|surface architecture=reticulodromous;long-stalked;multicellular
|surface pubescence=unicellular-hairy;stipitate-glandular-hairy
|testa cell shape=elongate
|twig pubescence=glabrous
|whole_organism growth form=tree;shrub
|x chromosome quantity=12
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