Psammisia

Psammisia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. It contains the fruiting bushes commonly called joyapas and is distributed throughout the Neotropics.

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It is catalogued under topics including Ericaceae genera and Vaccinioideae.

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Species

GENUS

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassMagnoliopsida
OrderEricales
FamilyEricaceae

Native toBolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guyana, Panamá, Peru, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela

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Museum specimens

Specimen records: 635
With media: 572
Family: Ericaceae
Collections: IBUNAM, NY, USF, CAS, WIS, UFAC
Recorded in: Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Brasil, Guyana

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: taxon
Parent taxon: Ericaceae
Named after: Psamtik II
Image: Psammisia sodiroi (16439364388).jpg

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Commons category: Psammisia
taxon rank: genus
taxon name: Psammisia
GRIN URL: npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=9891
topic's main category: Category:Psammisia

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Contents

Description
Taxonomy
Species
Distribution and habitat
References
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Psammisia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. It contains the fruiting bushes commonly called joyapas and is distributed throughout the Neotropics.

==Description==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Psammisia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.