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(Last Modified On 7/24/2013)
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(Last Modified On 7/24/2013)
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Genus
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Pernettya Gaud.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Voy. Freycinet Bot. 454. tab. 67. 1826 [1829]. nom. conserv.
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Note
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TYPE: P. empetrifolia (Lam.) Gaud. = P. pumila (L.f.) Hook.
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Synonym
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Pernettia Gaud., Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) ser. I. 5: 102. 1825. TYPE: P. empetrifolia (Lam.) Gaud.
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Description
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Straggly to densely bushy shrubs with depressed, sprawling to erect stems. Leaves alternate, persistent, coriaceous or membranaceous, denticulate or serru- late, short petiolate. Inflorescence with flowers usually solitary in the axils of the upper leaves or rarely in axillary racemes; pedicels bracteate, nodding, bibracteolate, indistinctly articulated just beneath the calyx. Flowers with the calyx persistent with a short tube and 5 lanceolate to elliptic, acute lobes; corolla tube urceolate, cylindric to ovoid or subglobose, white or white tinged with pink or rose, the lobes 5, less than 1/1o as long as the corolla tube, reflexed; stamens 10, included well within the corolla, the filaments slightly dilated below, glabrous, the anthers mostly oblong or oval, dehiscing apically by terminal pores, 2 slender awns terminating each anther sac; stigma punctate, the style slender, cylindric, persistent, the ovary superior, 5-loculate, usually subspheroid. Berry subglobose to globose, somewhat fleshy and even succulent; seeds numerous, small, angular, compressed.
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Habit
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shrubs
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Note
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This is a montane genus of perhaps 15 species.
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Distribution
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ranges from Central Mexico south throughout Central America and western South America to southern Argentina and Chile. It also occurs in New Zealand and Tasmania.
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Reference
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Camp, W. H. 1939. Studies in the Ericales. IV. Notes on Chimaphila, Gaul- theria and Pernettya in Mexico and Adjacent Regions. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 66: 7-28. Sleumer, Hermann. 1935. Revision der Gattung Pernettya Gaud. Notizbl. Bot. Gard. Berlin-Dahlem, 12: 626-655.
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