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Family: Ericaceae
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Country of Origin: Ecuador (endemic)
Description: Terrestrial or epiphytic shrub, to 5 m tall, often growing from a lignotuber to 0.3 m diam.
Uses: The fruit is very juicy but insipid
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USDA Zone: 10b-11
Source: Opel ex NYBG
Provenance:
Name citation in Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. viii. 69 (1952).
NYBG# 700 89B
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Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: asterids
- Order: Ericales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Ericaceae
- SubFamily: Vaccinioideae
- Tribe: Vaccinieae
- SubTribe:
References:
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 3 June 2015.
- Macleania coccoloboides at Strange Wonderful Things. Accessed 3 June 2015.
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