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The Ericales are a large and diverse order of dicotyledons. Species in this order have considerable commercial importance including for tea, persimmon, blueberry, kiwifruit, Brazil nuts, argan, and azalea. The order includes trees, bushes, lianas, and herbaceous plants. Together with ordinary autophytic plants, the Ericales include chlorophyll ...
The Ericaceae ( / ˌɛrɪˈkeɪsi.aɪ, - iː /) are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions. The family is large, with c. 4250 known species spread across 124 genera, [2] making it the 14th most species-rich family of flowering plants. [3]
Mitrastemon matudae. Mitrastemon yamamotoi. Mitrastemonaceae. List of Ericales of Montana.
Ericaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Ericales. Plants of this family grow both in Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere. The common English name of Ericaceae is the heath family . Flower diagram of Vaccinium, a well-known genus of Ericaceae. Many plants of Ericaceae are shrubs, but there are also trees and herbs .
Ericales, rhododendron order of flowering plants, containing 22 families, 346 genera, and more than 12,000 species. The order is placed as a basal asterid in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group IV (APG IV). Learn more about the taxonomy and characteristics of the families and major species of the order.
Ericaceae, the heath family of flowering plants (order Ericales ), comprising 126 genera and some 4,000 species. Ericaceae is made up mostly of shrubs and small trees, and its members are widely distributed, extending into the subarctic and along mountain chains through the tropics. A large percentage of the family’s species are cultivated ...
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