Family Ericaceae Jussieu 1789 (heather)

Dicotyledoneae - Ericales - Ericaceae

Full reference: A. L. d. Jussieu. 1789. Genera plantarum :secundum ordines naturales disposita, juxta methodum in Horto regio parisiensi exaratam.

Parent taxon: Ericales according to E. I. Vera et al. 2022

See also Berchtold and Presl 1820, Chandler 1963, Hickey 1977, Knowlton 1919, Mabberley 2000, Taylor et al. 2008, The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016 and Vallati et al. 2020

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Agaurioxylon Andromeda Andromedeae Andromedites Arbutites Arbutus Arctostaphyloides Arctostaphylos Brachyloma Calluna Cosmelieae Cyathodes Cyathodophyllum Dendrium Dermatophyllites Epacridiphyllum Epacriphyllum Epacris Ericiphyllum Ericipites Gaultheria Gaylussacia Kalmia Kalmiophyllum Leucothoe Lyonia Monotoca Orphanidesites Pieris Rhododendron Richea Richeaphyllum Trochocarpa Weylandicutis Xolisma

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (37 collections), Canada (2: British Columbia, Nunavut), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), India (10), Japan (2), Panama (1), Portugal (2), Tanzania (1), United States (3: California, North Carolina, Washington)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (2), Tanzania (1)

• Pliocene of Bolivia (1), China (2), Germany (5), Japan (1), Panama (1), Portugal (11), United States (4: Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada)

• Hemphillian of United States (2: California, Indiana)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Bolivia (1), India (1), Japan (3), South Africa (1), South Atlantic (2)

• Miocene of Australia (6), Azerbaijan (1), China (2), Costa Rica (1), Denmark (2), Germany (20), India (1), Japan (2), New Zealand (3), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (4), Turkey (1), United States (18: California, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, Virginia)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (6), New Zealand (1), United States (2: Maryland, Montana)

• Oligocene of Australia (1), China (1), Germany (3), the Russian Federation (3), United States (3: Idaho, Montana, Virginia)

• Eocene of Antarctica (6), Australia (1), Canada (2: British Columbia), Colombia (2), Germany (1), Myanmar (8), the United Kingdom (2), United States (7: Louisiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Wyoming)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Belgium (1)

• Paleocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (6), Australia (2), United States (2: Colorado, Wyoming), Venezuela (2)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (9), Canada (3: Alberta, British Columbia), China (1), United States (8: Georgia, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, Wyoming)

Total: 245 collections including 360 occurrences

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