Gaultheria borneensis
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Synonyms
- Gaultheria itoana Hayata
Other taxa in genus
- Gaultheria adenothrix
- Gaultheria antipoda
- Gaultheria appressa
- Gaultheria codonantha
- Gaultheria colensoi
- Gaultheria crassa
- Gaultheria cuneata
- Gaultheria depressa
- Gaultheria eriophylla
- Gaultheria forrestii
- Gaultheria fragrantissima
- Gaultheria griffithiana
- Gaultheria hirtiflora
- Gaultheria hispida
- Gaultheria hispidula
- Gaultheria hookeri
- Gaultheria humifusa
- Gaultheria insana
- Gaultheria leucocarpa
- Gaultheria macrostigma
- Gaultheria marticorenae
- Gaultheria miqueliana
- Gaultheria mucronata
- Gaultheria myrsinoides
- Gaultheria nummularioides
- Gaultheria oppositifolia
- Gaultheria ovatifolia
- Gaultheria parvula
- Gaultheria procumbens
- Gaultheria pumila
- Gaultheria pyroloides
- Gaultheria rupestris
- Gaultheria semi-infera
- Gaultheria shallon
- Gaultheria sinensis
- Gaultheria stapfiana
- Gaultheria subcorymbosa
- Gaultheria tasmanica
- Gaultheria tetramera
- Gaultheria thymifolia
- Gaultheria trichophylla
- Gaultheria wardii
- Gaultheria × wisleyensis
This species, a native of Formosa, is closely allied to G. cuneata but is most easily distinguished by its narrow leaves, 3⁄8 to 5⁄8 in. long, 1⁄8 to 1⁄4 in. wide. It was introduced from Formosa shortly before 1936 by K. Yashiroda, under his number 149, and was at first erroneously known in gardens as G. merrilliana, possibly because one of Yashiroda’s specimens of this gaultheria had been identified as Vaccinium merrillianum, a gaultheria-like species also found in Formosa. It has about the same garden value as G. cuneata but is dwarfer. If the two species were to be united it would be under the name G. itoana, which has priority.
