Which plant is a species in the Ericaceae family, Gaultheria or Basselinia?
Gaultheria Gaultheria is a genus of about 135 species of shrubs in the family Ericaceae. The name commemorates Jean-François Gauthier of Quebec, an honour bestowed by the Scandinavian Pehr Kalm in 1748 and taken up by Carl Linnaeus in his "Species Plantarum ". These plants are native to Asia, Australasia and North and South America. In the past, the Southern Hemisphere species were often treated as the separate genus "Pernettya", but no consistent reliable morphological or genetic differences support recognition of two genera, and they are now united in the single genus "Gaultheria".
Elatinaceae Elatinaceae is a family of flowering plants with ca 35 (to perhaps 50) species in two genera: "Elatine" and "Bergia". The "Elatine" are mostly aquatic herbs, and the "Bergia" are subshrubs to shrubs. "Elatine" species are widely distributed throughout the world from temperate to tropical zones, with its greatest diversity found in temperate zones. "Bergia" is found in temperate to tropical Eurasia and Africa, with two tropical and one tropical to temperate species in the Americas. The center for biodiversity of "Bergia" is the Old World tropics, and this is also the center for biodiversity for the family. Neither genus is found in arctic ecosystems.