Gaultheria semi-infera
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Synonyms
- Diplycosia semi-infera C.B.Clarke
Other taxa in genus
- Gaultheria adenothrix
- Gaultheria antipoda
- Gaultheria appressa
- Gaultheria borneensis
- 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 shallon
- Gaultheria sinensis
- Gaultheria stapfiana
- Gaultheria subcorymbosa
- Gaultheria tasmanica
- Gaultheria tetramera
- Gaultheria thymifolia
- Gaultheria trichophylla
- Gaultheria wardii
- Gaultheria × wisleyensis
This species is closely allied to G. tetramera but differs consistently from it and from all other members of the section Leucothoïdes in having only five stamens to the flower instead of the usual ten. Other characters distinguishing it from G. tetramera are its taller stature (to about 6 ft high) and the more or less elliptic leaves. Native of the region from the Sikkim Himalaya eastward through N. Burma to S.W. China. It was given an Award of Merit when shown by N. G. Hadden of West Porlock, Somerset, in September 1950, and the figure in Bot. Mag., n.s., t. 197, is made from his plant.The date of introduction of G. semi-infera is uncertain, but Forrest probably sent seeds on more than one occasion and it was reintroduced from Bhutan in 1949.
