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Internal ID UUID64400f973e03a003501855
Scientific name Cassiope mertensiana
Authority (Bong.) G.Don
First published in Gen. Hist. 3: 829. 1834 [8-15 Nov 1834]

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Andromeda cupressina Hook. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 38 (1834)
Andromeda mertensiana Bong. Veg. Ins. Sitcha : 152 (1833)
Cassiope mertensiana subsp. californica Piper Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 50: 196 (1907)
Cassiope mertensiana subsp. ciliolata Piper Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 50: 196 (1907)
Cassiope mertensiana subsp. gracilis Piper Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 50: 195 (1907)
Cassiope mertensiana var. gracilis (Piper) C.L.Hitchc. Vasc. Pl. Pacif. N. W. [C.L. Hitchcock & al.] 4: 8 (1959)
Cassiope mertensiana var. californica (Piper) Tiehm J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 17(1): 23 2023

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English western moss heather

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000589563
Canadensys 5499
USDA Plants CAME7
Tropicos 12300596
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:327321-1
The Plant List kew-2704398
Open Tree Of Life 899023
NCBI Taxonomy 13405
Nature Serve 2.147146
IPNI 30188630-2
iNaturalist 60530
GBIF 5333402
Freebase /m/03gzqms
EPPO CAIME
EOL 583646
Calflora (Californian flora) 1665
USDA GRIN 9411
Wikipedia Cassiope_mertensiana

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Title Authors Publication Released IDs
Species-Specific Responses to Human Trampling Indicate Alpine Plant Size Is More Sensitive than Reproduction to Disturbance Chardon NI, Stone P, Hilbert C, Maclachlan T, Ragsdale B, Zhao A, Goodwin K, Collins CG, Hewitt N, Elphinstone C Plants (Basel) 24-Aug-2023
PMCID:PMC10489881
doi:10.3390/plants12173040
PMID:37687287
Lichens and associated fungi from Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska Spribille T, Fryday AM, Pérez-Ortega S, Svensson M, Tønsberg T, Ekman S, Holien H, Resl P, Schneider K, Stabentheiner E, Thüs H, Vondrák J, Sharman L Lichenologist 11-May-2020
PMCID:PMC7398404
doi:10.1017/S0024282920000079
PMID:32788812
Carbon sources for the Palaeozoic giant fungus Prototaxites inferred from modern analogues Hobbie EA, Boyce CK Proc Biol Sci 24-Mar-2010
PMCID:PMC2880155
doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.0201
PMID:20335209
A study of the flavonoids of certain species of <i>Cassiope</i> (Ericaceae) K. E. Denford, I. Karas Canadian Science Publishing 15-Sep-2008
doi:10.1139/B75-143

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Name PubChem ID Canonical SMILES MW Found in Proof
> Phenylpropanoids and polyketides / Flavonoids / Flavonoid glycosides / Flavonoid O-glycosides / Flavonoid-7-O-glycosides
myricetin 7-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside 15118774 Click to see C1=C(C=C(C(=C1O)O)O)C2=C(C(=O)C3=C(C=C(C=C3O2)OC4C(C(C(C(O4)CO)O)O)O)O)O 480.40 unknown https://doi.org/10.1139/B75-143

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