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Eubotrys
Credits
New article for Trees and Shrubs Online.
Recommended citation
'Eubotrys' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Family
- Ericaceae
Editorial Note
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Confirmation of the long-suspected polyphyly of Leucothoe as traditionally circumscribed has prompted its splitting into several smaller monophyletic genera: Agarista, Eubotrys, the monospecific Eubotryoides, and a remnant Leucothoe s.s. that now consists exclusively of evergreen species with an East Asian-North American distribution.
Eubotrys, containing just two, rather similar, species, is distinguished by its deciduous leaves, which have unicellular hairs on both faces, and by its elongate photosynthetic bracts along the inflorescence axis (Judd et al. 2012). Eubotrys recurva is native to the southern Appalachians, and E. racemosa to the Gulf coastal plain and eastern Atlantic seaboard (northern Florida to Massachusetts).
On the dismantling of Leucothoe s.l., see the entry for that genus.