1. Ovary superior; fruit a capsule, surrounded by a fleshy
calyx; terrestrial, rhizomatous shrub
to ca. 0.5 m tall; plants reddish-hirsute
almost all over ................................ Gaultheria domingensis
1. Ovary inferior; fruit a true berry; terrestrial
or epiphytic, scandent shrub, often lianoid, to
4 m tall; plants essentially glabrous.
2. Inflorescences 4-8-flowered;
calyx narrowly winged, the lobes less than 1 mm long;
corolla
tubular-cylindric, red; pedicels 20-29 mm long; staminal filaments
glabrous, 1.5-2
mm long,
shorter than the anthers; anther tubules 2.5-3.5(-6) mm long ... Gonocalyx
smilacifolius
2. Inflorescences 10-30-flowered;
calyx not winged, the lobes 1-3 mm long; corolla
campanulate-urceolate,
green; pedicels 10-25 mm long; staminal filaments ciliate and
pubescent,
4-4.5 mm long, longer than the anthers; anther tubules ca. 1 mm long
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............................................................................................................... Vaccinium
racemosum |