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|accepted_name=Epigaea
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 395. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 186. 1754 ,
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|common_names=Trailing arbutus
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Ericoideae;Epigaea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ericaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Ericaceae subfam. Ericoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Epigaea]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek epi-, upon, and gaia, earth, alluding to creeping habit
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 370, 374, 449
|treatment_page=page 475
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism growth form"><b>Subshrubs.</b></span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem growth form or orientation;stem growth form or orientation"><b>Stems </b>creeping or prostrate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="twig pubescence">twigs coarsely hirsute (especially new growth).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf duration;leaf arrangement"><b>Leaves </b>persistent, alternate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="petiole presence">petiole present;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="blade texture;margin architecture or shape">blade coriaceous, margins entire.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="inflorescence position;inflorescence position;spike architecture;raceme density;raceme architecture"><b>Inflorescences </b>axillary or terminal, spikes or dense racemes, 2–6 (–10) -flowered;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="perula presence">perulae absent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="flower reproduction;flower reproduction;flower architecture or shape"><b>Flowers </b>bisexual or unisexual (functionally dioecious), radially symmetric;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="sepal quantity;sepal fusion">sepals 5, distinct, (imbricate);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="petal quantity;petal fusion;corolla duration;corolla shape">petals 5, connate for ca. 1/2 their lengths, corolla ± deciduous, ± salverform;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="stamen quantity;stamen position">stamens 10, included;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="anther dehiscence;slit dehiscence or orientation">anthers without awns, dehiscent by longitudinal slits;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="ovary architecture or structure in adjective form">ovary 5-locular;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="style position">style included;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="stigma shape">stigma 5-lobed.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="fruit architecture;fruit shape;fruit dehiscence"><b>Fruits </b>capsular, depressed-globose, dehiscence septicidal.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="seed quantity;seed shape;seed architecture;seed shape"><b>Seeds </b>ca. 100, ovoid to globose, not winged, not tailed;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties="">testa foveolate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s19" data-properties="testa relief;x chromosome quantity">x = 12.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;e;sw Asia
|discussion=<p>Orphanidesia Boissier & Balansa</p><!--
--><p>Species 3 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Epigaea comprises E. repens in eastern North America, E. asiatica Maximowicz in eastern Asia, and E. gaultherioides (Boissier & Balansa) Takhtajan in southwestern Asia (Caucasus region).</p><!--
--><p>The species of Epigaea are infrequently cultivated; they are difficult to establish and maintain (M. A. Dirr 1998).</p>
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name=Epigaea
|author=Walter S. Judd;Kathleen A. Kron
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ericaceae
|distribution=North America;e;sw Asia
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;
|special status=
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|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Ericoideae
|genus=Epigaea
|anther dehiscence=dehiscent
|blade texture=coriaceous
|corolla duration=deciduous
|corolla shape=salverform
|flower architecture or shape=symmetric
|flower reproduction=unisexual;bisexual
|fruit architecture=capsular
|fruit dehiscence=septicidal
|fruit shape=depressed-globose
|inflorescence position=terminal;axillary
|leaf arrangement=alternate
|leaf duration=persistent
|margin architecture or shape=entire
|ovary architecture or structure in adjective form=5-locular
|perula presence=absent
|petal fusion=connate
|petal quantity=5
|petiole presence=absent
|raceme architecture=2-6(-10)-flowered
|raceme density=dense
|seed architecture=not winged
|seed quantity=100
|seed shape=not tailed;ovoid;globose
|sepal fusion=distinct
|sepal quantity=5
|slit dehiscence or orientation=longitudinal
|spike architecture=2-6(-10)-flowered
|stamen position=included
|stamen quantity=10
|stem growth form or orientation=prostrate;creeping
|stigma shape=5-lobed
|style position=included
|testa relief=foveolate
|twig pubescence=hirsute
|whole_organism growth form=subshrub
|x chromosome quantity=12
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