Gaylussacia pulchra

Gaylussacia pulchra is a plant species in the family Ericaceae. It is native to the States of Bahia and Minas Gerais in eastern Brazil.[3]

Gaylussacia pulchra
1827 illustration[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Gaylussacia
Species:
G. pulchra
Binomial name
Gaylussacia pulchra
Pohl 1828 not Miq. ex Meisn. 1863
Synonyms[2]
  • Adnaria pulchra (Pohl) Kuntze

Gaylussacia pulchra is a woody, branching shrub. Leaves are lance-shaped, dark green on the upper surface, whitish on the underside. Flowers are scarlet, tubular, in axillary racemes. Fruits have 10 chambers, each with one seed.[1][4]

References
  1. Pohl, Johann Baptist Emanuel 1828. Plantarum Brasiliae Icones et Descriptiones 2: plate 127 full-page color illustration
  2. Tropicos, Gaylussacia pulchra Pohl
  3. Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro Archived September 6, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  4. Pohl, Johann Baptist Emanuel 1828. Plantarum Brasiliae Icones et Descriptiones 2: 41-42 in Latin


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