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Gleason, H.A. & Cronquist, A. (1963) Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada D. van Nostrand Co, Inc. Princetown New Jersey.
Shrubs with alternate evergreen leaves. Flowers white in terminal panicles, 5-merous; calyx persistent, campanulate; corolla ovoid, constricted above, 5-saccate at base alternately with the sepals, 5 angled in bud. Fruit a globose capsule; seeds few in each cell. Worldwide: 7 species native to mountain regions of east and southern Asia, eastern North America and Cuba. Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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| formosa (Wall.) D. Don |
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