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 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]
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abFloyd, 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.
JSTOR3093898.
^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.
PMID21669741.
^Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology Volume 26, Issues 1–4, September 1978, Pages 173-211, The pliocene flora of Fortuna-Garsdorf I. fruits and seeds of angiosperms by J. Van Der Burgh
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