Vaccinieae is a tribe of over 1000 species in the plant family
Ericaceae
The Ericaceae 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, making it th ...
. The tribe consists of morphologically diverse woody plants. Species within Vaccinieae can be found on all continents except
Australia
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and
Antarctica
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. Genetic analysis indicates that Vaccinieae is a
monophyletic
In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic gro ...
group.
Genera
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Agapetes
''Agapetes'' (Gk. ἀγαπητός (agapetos) = 'beloved') is a semi-climbing shrub genus native to the Himalayas, grown as an ornamental for its attractive pendulous bunches of red tubular flowers blooming over a long period. It is mostly grow ...
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Anthopteropsis
''Anthopteropsis'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ericaceae
The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions ...
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Anthopterus
''Anthopterus'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ericaceae
The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions. T ...
Cavendishia
''Cavendishia'' is a genus of about 100 species of woody perennial plants, many of which are epiphytic. The genus is native to tropical South America and Central America
Central America ( es, América Central or ) is a subregion of the ...
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Ceratostema
''Ceratostema'' is a genus
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Demosthenesia
''Demosthenesia'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ericaceae.
Its native range is Peru to Bolivia and Brazil.
The genus name of ''Demosthenesia'' is in honour of Demosthenes
Demosthenes (; el, Δημοσθένης, tr ...
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Didonica
''Didonica'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ericaceae
The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions. The ...
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Dimorphanthera
''Dimorphanthera'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ericaceae.
Its native range is Central Malesia to Papuasia.
Species:
*''Dimorphanthera alba''
*''Dimorphanthera albida''
*''Dimorphanthera albiflora''
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Disterigma
''Disterigma'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ericaceae
The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions. Th ...
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Gaylussacia
''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 majo ...
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Gonocalyx
''Gonocalyx'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ericaceae.
Its native range is Costa Rica to Colombia, Caribbean.
Species:
*''Gonocalyx almedae''
*''Gonocalyx amplexicaulis''
*''Gonocalyx concolor''
*''Gonocalyx costari ...
Macleania
''Macleania'' is a genus of plants in the family Ericaceae. Description
They are epiphytic or terrestrial shrubs. Alternate leaves, petiolate, coriaceous, pinnatinervias or plinervias. Subfasciculate or racemose inflorescences, axillary or termin ...
Notopora
''Notopora'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ericaceae
The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions. The ...
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Oreanthes
''Oreanthes'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ericaceae
The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions. The ...
Pellegrinia
''Pellegrinia'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ericaceae.
It is native to Colombia and Peru in western South America.
The genus name of ''Pellegrinia'' is in honour of François Pellegrin
François Pellegrin (25 Sep ...
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Periclesia
''Periclesia'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ericaceae. It only contains one known species, Periclesia flexuosa A.C.Sm. It is also with the Vaccinioideae subfamily and the Vaccinieae tribe.
It is native to Ecua ...
Polyclita
''Polyclita'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ericaceae. It only contains one known species, Polyclita turbinata (Kuntze) A.C.Sm.
It is native to Bolivia.
The genus name of ''Polyclita'' is in honour of Polyklei ...
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Psammisia
''Psammisia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. It contains the fruiting bushes commonly called ''joyapas'' and is distributed throughout the Neotropics
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms co ...
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Rusbya
''Rusbya'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ericaceae. It only contains one known species, Rusbya taxifolia Britton
It is native to Bolivia.
The genus name of ''Rusbya'' is in honour of Henry Hurd Rusby (1855– ...
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Satyria
''Satyria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the blueberry tribe Vaccinieae, family Ericaceae, native to southern Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. It is closely related to ''Cavendishia
''Cavendishia'' is a genus of abou ...
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Semiramisia
''Semiramisia'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ericaceae
The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions. T ...
Sphyrospermum
''Sphyrospermum'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ericaceae
The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions. ...
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Symphysia
''Vaccinium'' is a common and widespread genus of shrubs or dwarf shrubs in the Ericaceae, heath family (Ericaceae). The fruits of many species are eaten by humans and some are of commercial importance, including the cranberry, blueberry, bilbe ...
Thibaudia
''Thibaudia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. They are native to Central America, Central and South America with a high concentration of species in the cloud forests of Costa Rica and Ecuador.Utleya'' - ''
Vaccinium
''Vaccinium'' is a common and widespread genus of shrubs or dwarf shrubs in the heath family (Ericaceae). The fruits of many species are eaten by humans and some are of commercial importance, including the cranberry, blueberry, bilberry (whort ...