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Ericaceae gen. et sp. indet., Heath(s), Heather(s)

family Ericaceae de Jussieu (1789)

• Modern species: Late Cretaceous - Present (99.7 - 0.0 Ma)

• Classification
• kingdom Plantae, Angiosperms, order Ericales

• Distribution
• Cretaceous: Ibaraki
• Miocene: Hokkaido
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Kagawa
• Pleistocene: Aomori, Tochigi, Aichi, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi

• Subtaxa
• Andromeda, genus
• Elliottia paniculata
• Enkianthus campanulatus
• Lyonia ovalifolia var. elliptica
• Rhododendron, genus
• Vaccinium oxycoccos, Cranberry