Gaylussacia

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Ordo: Ericales

Familia: Ericaceae
Subfamilia: Vaccinioideae
Tribus: Vaccinieae
Genus: Gaylussacia
Species

G. amazonica – G. amoena – G. angulata – G. angustifolia – G. arassatubensis – G. baccata – G. bigeloviana – G. brachycera – G. brasiliensis – G. buxifolia – G. caparoensis – G. caratuvensis – G. cardenasii – G. centunculifolia – G. chamissonis – G. ciliosa – G. cinerea – G. decipiens – G. densa – G. duartei – G. dumosa – G. fasciculata – G. frondosa – G. gardneri – G. goyazensis – G. harleyi – G. incana – G. jordanensis – G. loxensis – G. luizae – G. martii – G. montana – G. mosieri – G. nana – G. oleifolia – G. pallida – G. paranaensis – G. pinifolia – G. pruinosa – G. pseudociliosa – G. pseudogaultheria – G. pulchra – G. reticulata – G. retivenia – G. retusa – G. rhododendron – G. riedelii – G. rigida – G. rugosa – G. salicifolia – G. setosa – G. tomentosa – G. ursina – G. virgata – G. vitis-idaea
Source(s) of checklist:

Hassler, M. 2020. Gaylussacia. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2020. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 May 26. Reference page.

Name

Gaylussacia Kunth Nov. Gen. Sp. (quarto ed.) 3: 275–277, pl. 257

Type species: Gaylussacia buxifolia Kunth.

References
Primary references

Humboldt, A., Bonpland, A. & Kunth, C.S. 1818–1820 ["1818"]. Nova genera et species plantarum, quas in peregrinatione ad plagam aequinoctialem orbis novi collegerunt, descripserunt, partim adumbraverunt Amat. Bonpland et Alex. de Humboldt. Tomus 3 (quarto ed.). 456 pp., tt. 193–300. Sumtibus Librariae Graeco-Latino-Germanicae, Lutetiae Parisiorum [Paris]. BHL Reference page. : 3: 275–277, pl. 257. BHL

Links

Hassler, M. 2020. Gaylussacia. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2020. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 May 26. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Gaylussacia in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 May 26. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Gaylussacia. Published online. Accessed: May 26 2020.
Tropicos.org 2020. Gaylussacia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 May 26.

Vernacular names
čeština: Borůvkovník
suomi: Kruunumustikat
русский: Гейлюссакия

Gaylussacia is a genus of about fifty species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae, native to the Americas, where they occur in eastern North America and in South America in the Andes and the mountains of southeastern Brazil (the majority of the known species). Common English names include huckleberry (shared with plants in several other genera) and "dangleberry".

Gaylussacia plants are often a component of an oak-heath forest.[2][3] They are deciduous or evergreen shrubs growing to a height of 0.4–1.8 metres (1 ft 4 in–5 ft 11 in).
Contents

1 Ecology
2 Classification
3 Species
4 References
5 External links

Ecology

Gaylussacia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) species including Coleophora gaylussaciella (which feeds exclusively on Gaylussacia) and Coleophora multicristatella.
Classification

Gaylussacia is named in honor of the French chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850). It is closely related to Vaccinium,[4] and it is still unclear whether the commonly understood line between Vaccinium and Gaylussacia is justified.[5] A 2002 paper found that molecular data did not support past divisions of Gaylussacia into sections.[4]
Species
Gaylussacia brasiliensis

Gaylussacia amazonica – Brazil
Gaylussacia amoena – Rio de Janeiro
Gaylussacia angulata – Brazil
Gaylussacia angustifolia – Southern Brazil
Gaylussacia baccata – Black huckleberry, Southeastern Canada, eastern United States
Gaylussacia bigeloviana - East Coast of USA + Canada
Gaylussacia brachycera – Box huckleberry, Eastern United States
Gaylussacia brasiliensis – Southeastern Brazil, Paraguay
Gaylussacia buxifolia – Uva de páramo, Colombia, Venezuela
Gaylussacia caparoensis – Espirito Santo
Gaylussacia caratuvensis - Paraná
Gaylussacia cardenasii – Bolivia, Argentina
Gaylussacia centunculifolia – Minas Gerais
Gaylussacia chamissonis – Southeastern Brazil
Gaylussacia ciliosa – Brazil
Gaylussacia cinerea – Minas Gerais
Gaylussacia corvensis - Santa Catarina
Gaylussacia decipiens – Minas Gerais
Gaylussacia densa – Minas Gerais, Bahia
Gaylussacia duartei– Minas Gerais
Gaylussacia dumosa – Dwarf huckleberry, Eastern USA + Canada
Gaylussacia fasciculata – Brazil
Gaylussacia frondosa – Blue huckleberry, Eastern United States
Gaylussacia gardneri – Minas Gerais
Gaylussacia goyazensis – Goiás
Gaylussacia harleyi – Bahia
Gaylussacia incana – Minas Gerais, Bahia
Gaylussacia jordanensis – Brazil
Gaylussacia loxensis – Ecuador, northern Peru
Gaylussacia martii – Minas Gerais
Gaylussacia montana – Minas Gerais
Gaylussacia mosieri – Woolly huckleberry, Southeastern United States
Gaylussacia nana – Dwarf dangleberry, Southeastern United States
Gaylussacia oleifolia – Minas Gerais
Gaylussacia orocola - North Carolina
Gaylussacia pallida – Minas Gerais
Gaylussacia peruviana - Peru, Ecuador
Gaylussacia pinifolia – Minas Gerais
Gaylussacia pruinosa – Brazil
Gaylussacia pseudociliosa – Minas Gerais
Gaylussacia pseudogaultheria – Bolivia, Brazil
Gaylussacia pulchra – Minas Gerais, Bahia
Gaylussacia reticulata – Brazil
Gaylussacia retivenia – Rio de Janeiro
Gaylussacia retusa – Minas Gerais
Gaylussacia rhododendron – Paraná
Gaylussacia riedelii – Minas Gerais
Gaylussacia rigida – Brazil
Gaylussacia rugosa – Minas Gerais
Gaylussacia salicifolia – Brazil
Gaylussacia setosa – Minas Gerais
Gaylussacia tomentosa – Hairy-twig huckleberry, Southeastern United States
Gaylussacia ursina – Bear huckleberry, Southeastern United States
Gaylussacia virgata – Minas Gerais, Bahia
Gaylussacia vitis-idaea – Minas Gerais

References

1827 illustration from Plantarum Brasiliae icones et descriptiones hactenus ineditae. Vol. 1. Author: Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
The Natural Communities of Virginia Classification of Ecological Community Groups (Version 2.3), Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, 2010 Archived January 15, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
Schafale, M. P. & A. S. Weakley (1990). "Classification of the natural communities of North Carolina" (PDF) (third approximation ed.). North Carolina Natural Heritage Program, North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-25.
Floyd, Jennifer Whitehead (2002). "Phylogenetic and biogeographic patterns in Gaylussacia (Ericaceae) based on morphological, nuclear DNA, and chloroplast DNA variation". Systematic Botany. 27 (1): 99–115. doi:10.1043/0363-6445-27.1.99. JSTOR 3093898.
Kathleen A. Kron, E. Ann Powell and J. L. Luteyn (2002). "Phylogenetic relationships within the blueberry tribe (Vaccinieae, Ericaceae) based on sequence data from matK and nuclear ribosomal ITS regions, with comments on the placement of Satyria". American Journal of Botany. 89 (2): 327–336. doi:10.3732/ajb.89.2.327. PMID 21669741.