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Gaultheria
Sign in to saveGaultheria is a genus of about 283 species of shrubs in the family Ericaceae. The name commemorates Jean François Gaultier of Quebec, an honour bestowed by the Scandinavian Pehr Kalm in 1748 and taken up by Carl Linnaeus in his ''. These plants are native to Asia, Australasia and North and South America. In the past, the Southern Hemisphere species were often treated as the separate genus Pernettya, but no consistent reliable morphological or genetic differences support recognition of two genera, and they are now united in the single genus Gaultheria''.
Species
salal
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderEricales
- FamilyEricaceae
Die Scheinbeeren (Gaultheria), auch Rebhuhnbeeren genannt, sind eine Pflanzengattung in der Familie der Heidekrautgewächse (Ericaceae). Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Beschreibung 1.1 Vegetative Merkmale 1.2 Generative Merkmale 2 Vorkommen 3 Systematik 4 Nutzung 4.1 Wintergreen 4.1.1 Bestandteile und Gewinnung 4.1.2 Verwendung 5 Toxizität 6 Quellen 6.1 Literatur 6.2 Einzelnachweise 7 Weblinks Beschreibung Illustration des Wintergrünstrauchs (Gaultheria procumbens) Vegetative Merkmale Gaultheria-Arten wachsen meist als immergrüne Sträucher oder Halbsträucher, die Wuchshöhen von weniger als 10 Zentimetern bis zu 2,5 Metern erreichen. Eine Ausnahme bildet die aus dem Himalaya stammende Gaultheria fragrantissima, die als kleiner Baum Wuchshöhen von 5 bis 6 Metern erreichen kann. Die Zweige sind aufrecht bis kriechend. Die Rinde der Zweige ist kahl bis behaart. Die spiralig am Zweig angeordneten Laubblätter sind in Blattstiel und Blattspreite gegliedert. Die Laubblätter geben beim Zerreiben einen aromatischen Duft ab. Die einfachen, eiförmigen, elliptischen, mehr oder weniger kreisförmigen oder nierenförmigen Blattspreiten mit behaarten oder kahlen Oberflächen besitzen meist einen gesägten, geker
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,394
- With media
- 988
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Collections
- ECOSUR, UNICACH, GH, INECOL, UACH, FCB-BUAP
- Recorded in
- Mexico
Research
162 papers- Gaultheria Ethnobotany and Bioactivity: Blueberry Relatives with Anti-inflammatory, Antioxidant, and Anticancer Constituents.Current medicinal chemistry · 2018
- Gaultheria: Phytochemical and pharmacological characteristics.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2013
- Gaultheria leucocarpa inhibits Aβ fibrillization and enhances mitophagy-mediated degradation of pathogenic proteins.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025
- Phytochemistry and Biological Profile of Gaultheria procumbens L. and Wintergreen Essential Oil: From Traditional Application to Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
- Gaultheria longibracteolata, an alternative source of wintergreen oil.Food chemistry · 2021
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Vaccinioideae
- Named after
- Jean François Gauthier
- Image
- Salal (Gaultheria shallon) Leaf and Flowers.jpg
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- genus
- Commons category
- Gaultheria
- topic's main category
- Category:Gaultheria
- taxon common name
- 白珠树属
- taxon name
- Gaultheria
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Encyclopedic overview
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Gaultheria is a genus of about 283 species of shrubs in the family Ericaceae. The name commemorates Jean François Gaultier of Quebec, an honour bestowed by the Scandinavian Pehr Kalm in 1748 and taken up by Carl Linnaeus in his ''. These plants are native to Asia, Australasia and North and South America. In the past, the Southern Hemisphere species were often treated as the separate genus Pernettya, but no consistent reliable morphological or genetic differences support recognition of two genera, and they are now united in the single genus Gaultheria.
==Description== The species vary from low, ground-hugging shrubs less than tall, up to tall, or, in the case of G. fragrantissima from the Himalayas, even a small tree up to tall. The leaves are evergreen, alternate (opposite in G. oppositifolia from New Zealand), simple, and vary between species from long; the margins are finely serrated or bristly in most species, but entire in some. The flowers are solitary or in racemes, bell-shaped, with a five-lobed (rarely four-lobed) corolla; flower colour ranges from white to pink to red. The fruit is a fleshy berry in many species, a dry capsule in some, with numerous small seeds.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gaultheria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.