These are shrubs and trees, deciduous or evergreen. Some have rhizomes. The leaves are spirally arranged and the inflorescences grow in the leaf axils. The flowers are usually white, sometimes red. The fruit is a capsule.[1]
^Angiosperm Fruits and Seeds from the Middle Miocene of Jutland (Denmark) by Else Marie Friis, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 24:3, 1985
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lyonia, plant, lyonia, genus, flowering, plants, family, ericaceae, there, about, species, native, asia, north, america, lyonia, lyonia, ovalifolia, scientific, classification, kingdom, plantae, clade, tracheophytes, clade, angiosperms, clade, eudicots, clade,. Lyonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae There are about 35 species native to Asia and North America 1 Lyonia Lyonia ovalifolia Scientific classification Kingdom Plantae Clade Tracheophytes Clade Angiosperms Clade Eudicots Clade Asterids Order Ericales Family Ericaceae Subfamily Vaccinioideae Tribe Lyonieae Genus LyoniaNutt These are shrubs and trees deciduous or evergreen Some have rhizomes The leaves are spirally arranged and the inflorescences grow in the leaf axils The flowers are usually white sometimes red The fruit is a capsule 1 Fossil record edit37 fossil fruits of Lyonia danica have been described from middle Miocene strata of the Fasterholt area near Silkeborg in Central Jutland Denmark 2 Species editInclude Lyonia elliptica Lyonia ferruginea Lyonia fruticosa Lyonia jamaicensis Lyonia ligustrina Lyonia lucida Lyonia maestrensis Lyonia mariana Lyonia octandra Lyonia ovalifolia Lyonia truncataReferences edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lyonia nbsp Wikispecies has information related to Lyonia a b Lyonia Flora of China Angiosperm Fruits and Seeds from the Middle Miocene of Jutland Denmark by Else Marie Friis The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 24 3 1985 nbsp This Ericaceae article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Lyonia plant amp oldid 1013644877, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
