Empetrum
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Empetrum is a genus of three species of dwarf evergreen shrubs in the heath family, Ericaceae. They are commonly known as crowberries and bear edible fruit. Species of Empetrum include: E. nigrum (crowberry) and its tetraploid form, sometimes given its own name hermaphroditum, E. eamesii and E. rubrum.
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Empetrum is a genus of plants within the family Ericaceae. It belongs to the class Magnoliopsida, order Ericales, and phylum Tracheophyta in the kingdom Plantae. The genus has an accepted taxonomic status and produces berries. Its type species is Empetrum nigrum, and it is also referred to by the common name 岩高兰属.
Records for this genus have been documented in Canada, Chile, the United States, Greenland, and Sweden. It has also been introduced to South Georgia. Various institutions, including the Memorial University of Newfoundland, hold records and media related to the genus.
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderEricales
- FamilyEricaceae
岩高兰属（学名：Empetrum）是岩高兰科下的一个属，为矮小灌木植物。该属共有6种，分布于北温带和北极地区。[1] 参考文献 ^ 中国种子植物科属词典. 中国数字植物标本馆. （原始内容存档于2012-04-11）. 外部链接 維基物種中有關岩高兰属的數據 这是一篇與植物相關的小作品。你可以通过编辑或修订扩充其内容。 查 论 编 取自“https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=岩高兰属&oldid=44983128” 分类： 岩高兰科 岩高兰属 隐藏分类： 本地相关图片与维基数据相同 WikispeciesLatinName 全部小作品 植物小作品
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 275
- With media
- 246
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Collections
- MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND, GH, CAS, CMN, RSA, B
- Recorded in
- Canada, Chile, United States, Greenland, Sweden, Russia, Netherlands, Argentina
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- Empetrum
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- has fruit type
- berry
- taxonomic type
- Empetrum nigrum
- taxon common name
- 岩高兰属
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Empetrum is a genus of three species of dwarf evergreen shrubs in the heath family, Ericaceae. They are commonly known as crowberries and bear edible fruit. Species of Empetrum include: E. nigrum (crowberry) and its tetraploid form, sometimes given its own name hermaphroditum, E. eamesii and E. rubrum.
== Description == All three species are evergreen mat forming shrubs, with small, light green needle-like leaves long. The flowers are small and either bisexual or dioecious. The fruit is a fairly dry berry. The plant has slender, wiry, spreading branches covered with short, narrow, stiff leaves, the margins of which are recurved so as to form a hollow cylinder concealing the hairy under face of the leaf, which protects against excessive loss of water from the leaf.
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