Flora of North America species comparison

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Bejaria

flyweed, rose of the Andes
Habit Shrubs [trees].
Stems

erect;

twigs glabrous.
Leaves

persistent, alternate, (reduced in size proximal to inflorescence);

petiole present;

blade chartaceous [coriaceous], margins entire.
Inflorescences

terminal racemes or panicles, 2–5-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary;

perulae absent.
Flowers

bisexual, radially symmetric;

sepals [5] 7, connate for 1/2 their lengths;

petals [5–]7, distinct, (covered with sticky exudate), corolla deciduous, rotate;

stamens [10] 14, included;

anthers without awns, dehiscent by terminal pores;

ovary [5–]7-locular;

style barely exserted;

stigma 7-lobed [capitate].
Fruits

capsular, depressed-oblong, dehiscence septicidal.
Seeds

ca. 100–300, ellipsoid [oblong], without wings, with very short tail;

testa long-celled reticulate.

Bejaria
Distribution
from USDA
se United States; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies (Cuba)
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Discussion

Species 15 (1 in the flora).

Bejaria is widespread in Latin America, where it is an important component of the subparamo flora. Bejaria racemosa is placed in the monotypic section Racemosae Fendchenko & Basilevskaja because of its chartaceous leaves without prominent abaxial midveins and the inflorescence that appears stalked because of the marked reduction in leaf size below the inflorescence. The original spelling, Befaria, has been shown to be an orthographic error.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 449. Author: Steven E. Clemants†.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Ericoideae
Subordinate taxa
B. racemosa
Name authority Mutis: in C. Linnaeus, Mant. Pl., 152, 242. 1771, orthography conserved (as Befaria) ,
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