Ericaceae

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Meaning

heathers

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In many parts of the world, a " heath " or "heathland" is an environment characterised by an open dwarf- shrub community found on low-quality acidic soils, generally dominated by plants in the Ericaceae. Source: Internet

Infrageneric and Sectional Relationships in the Genus Rhododendron (Ericaceae) Inferred from ITS Sequence Data. Source: Internet

Phylogenetic relationships of Rhododendron section Vireya (Ericaceae) inferred from the ITS nrDNA region. Source: Internet

The name may have been used informally to refer to the plants before Linnaean times, and simply been formalised when Linnaeus described Erica in 1753, and then again when Jussieu described the Ericaceae in 1789. Source: Internet

Monotropoid mycorrhiza This type of mycorrhiza occurs in the subfamily Monotropoideae of the Ericaceae. Source: Internet

Taxonomy Adanson used the term Vaccinia to describe a similar family, but Jussieu first used the term Ericaceae. Source: Internet

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