Lyonia ligustrina var. ligustrina

Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 8. Treatment on page 501.

Buds glabrous or sparsely hairy. Inflorescences not conspicuously bracteate; bracts usually all similar to bracteoles (sometimes 1 or 2 larger, leaflike, to 5–15 mm). Pedicels (1–) 2–7.5 mm.


Phenology: Flowering spring–early summer.
Habitat: Moist to dry, acid woods and thickets, stream or pond margins, acid swamps or bogs, grassy and/or heath balds
Elevation: 0-2000 m

Distribution

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Ala., Conn., Del., D.C., Ga., Ky., Maine, Md., Mass., N.H., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa., R.I., S.C., Tenn., Vt., Va., W.Va.

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"entire" is not a number.

epigynous +  and hypogynous +
hairy +, glabrous +  and long-headed-hairy +
acute +  and acuminate or mucronate +
not constricted +
Walter S. Judd +
(Linnaeus) de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle +
furrowed +  and smooth +
not flaky +
attenuate;narrowly broadly cuneate or rounded +
Vaccinium ligustrinum +
9.5 cm95 mm <br />0.095 m <br /> (10.5 cm105 mm <br />0.105 m <br />) +
4.5 cm45 mm <br />0.045 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (9.5 cm95 mm <br />0.095 m <br />) +
ovate;obovate;ovate;obovate;elliptic +
membranous +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (4.5 cm45 mm <br />0.045 m <br />) +
inconspicuous +
1 +  and 6 +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
hairy +  and glabrous +
0.5mm;1.5mm +
not lepidote +  and hairy +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
globose +  and subglobose +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br />) +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
rotate to crateriform campanulate cylindric globose or urceolate +
urceolate +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br />) +
Ala. +, Conn. +, Del. +, D.C. +, Ga. +, Ky. +, Maine +, Md. +, Mass. +, N.H. +, N.J. +, N.Y. +, N.C. +, Ohio +, Pa. +, R.I. +, S.C. +, Tenn. +, Vt. +, Va. +  and W.Va. +
0-2000 m +
undifferentiated +
fusiform +
flattened +  and geniculate +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
indehiscent +  and loculicidal +
globose;ovoid or ellipsoid +
Moist to dry, acid woods and thickets, stream or pond margins, acid swamps or bogs, grassy and/or heath balds +
pseudoverticillate +  and alternate +
deciduous +  and semipersistent +
plane;slightly revolute +
parietal +, axile +  and placentation +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
(2-)5-8(-12)-flowered +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
not lepidote +  and hairy +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.75 cm7.5 mm <br />0.0075 m <br />) +
epigynous +  and hypogynous +
reduced +
not sticky +
Flowering spring–early summer. +
[4-]5[-8]-carpellate +
in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. +
tan;yellowish-brown or brown +
distinct +
obovoid +  and angular-obovoid or narrowly conic +
ovate-deltate +  and lanceolate +
procumbent +  and creeping +
hairy +  and glabrous +
terete +  and slightly angled +
peltate +  and capitate +
straight +
multicellular +
not lepidote +, hairy +  and long-headed-hairy +
Arsenococcus ligustrinus +
Lyonia ligustrina var. ligustrina +
Lyonia ligustrina +
variety +
glabrescent +  and hairy +
achlorophyllous +  and chlorophyllous +
20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br /> (100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br />) +
evergreen +, deciduous +  and perennial +
heterotrophic +, autotrophic +  and mycotrophic +
multicellular-hairy +