Flora of North America species comparison

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Chamaedaphne

cassandre caliculé, dwarf cassandra, faux bleuets, leatherleaf, petit-daphné
Habit Shrubs.
Stems

erect, ascending or spreading;

twigs hairy, lepidote.
Leaves

persistent;

blade usually oblong to elliptic, rarely obovate, coriaceous, margins entire or denticulate-crenulate, plane, abaxial surface glabrous, silvery, stramineous or brownish lepidote-scaled (splitting in age);

venation reticulodromous.
Inflorescences

terminal, (leafy) racemes, (flowers secund), 8–20-flowered, (from buds produced in previous season).
Flowers

sepals 5, distinct, ovate to broadly triangular;

petals 5, connate ca. 3/4 their lengths, white, corolla cylindric to urceolate-cylindric, slightly narrowed at throat, lobes much shorter than tube, (glabrous);

stamens 10, included;

filaments ± straight, flattened, subulate, abruptly narrowed at base, papillate, glabrous, without spurs;

anther with 2 awns (awns erect, tubular, as long as body), dehiscent by terminal or subterminal pore;

pistil 5-carpellate;

ovary 5-locular; (style enlarged just distal to ovary);

stigma slightly expanded, truncate.
Fruits

capsular, depressed-globose, dry-dehiscent, (with unthickened sutures).
Seeds

35–50, wedge-shaped, flattened, (without wings);

testa reticulate, (cells isodiametric).
x

= 11.

Chamaedaphne
Distribution
from USDA
North America; Eurasia
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Discussion

Cassandra D. Don

Species 1: North America, Eurasia.

Chamaedaphne has been included in other genera of subfamily Vaccinioideae (Andromeda, Lyonia) and more recently has been placed in tribe Gaultherieae (K. A. Kron et al. 2002). Its leaf anatomy differs from that of other genera in having venation transitional between pleuroplastic and basiplastic types, denser venation, and thin vein endings (K. Lems 1964).

Species 1

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 507. Author: Dorothy M. Fabijan.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae
Subordinate taxa
C. calyculata
Name authority Moench: Methodus, 457. 1794, name conserved ,
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