Family:
Ericaceae Durande

Gaultheria Kalm ex L.

This genus is accepted, and its native range is Asia, Australasia, America.

Native to:

Alabama, Alaska, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Assam, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, British Columbia, California, Cambodia, Chile Central, Chile South, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Delaware, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Is., Galápagos, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Japan, Jawa, Juan Fernández Is., Kentucky, Kuril Is., Labrador, Laos, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Maine, Malaya, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Myanmar, Nepal, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Guinea, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Panamá, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Prince Edward I., Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, South Carolina, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tasmania, Tennessee, Thailand, Tibet, Trinidad-Tobago, Utah, Venezuela, Vermont, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Virginia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Wyoming

Introduced into:

France, Great Britain, Ireland

Gaultheria Kalm ex L. appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
17829.000
Utteridge, T.M.A. [353], New Guinea 70642.000
Pernettya 10020.000
Pernettya 17408.000

First published in Sp. Pl.: 395 (1753)

Accepted by

  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS G: 1-40325.

Literature

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt. (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014

  • Colombian resources for Plants made Accessible

    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0