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Gaultheria frangrantissima ssp. punctata

Botanic Family

Ericaceae

Author

(Blume) Steenis

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Java
• Lesser Sunda Is.
• Sumatra - Indonesia

Natural Habitats

• Montane forest
• volcanoes
• montane shrubland. Oil distilled from leaves and flowers used in perfume and medicinally

Flowering Times

• All Year (Indonesia)

Fruiting Times

Treelet, erect, decumbent or scandent shrub to 5m, with glabrous branchlets, coriaceous leaves to 100mm x 40mm. Axillary panicles to 125mm x 70mm with bracts and bracteoles to 1.5mm, 5-lobed glabrous calyx to 3.5mm with a white tube, white to pinkish glabrous corolla with 5 lobes to 7mm x 5mm, red to black-purple fruit to 10mm dai.

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• Flora Malesiana