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Gaultheria cuneata (Rehder & E.H.Wilson) Bean

Ericaceae · China South-Central, Nepal

No habitat climate
Photographs not checked iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not asked, or not answered, is not "none": nothing here claims there is none. Why the site says it this way.
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Summary

Gaultheria cuneata is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae, native to western China. It is a densely branched, dwarf, evergreen shrub growing to 30 cm (12 in) tall by 100 cm (39 in) wide, with narrow glossy green leaves and white flowers in spring followed by white berries 1 cm in diameter in autumn. Like others of its family, it is a calcifuge, preferring an acid peaty soil. In cultivation it is used as groundcover for underplanting larger shrubs.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Gaultheria cuneata", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Gaultheria

Gaultheria is a genus of about 283 species of shrubs in the family Ericaceae. The name commemorates Jean François Gaultier 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. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Gaultheria", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 29 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 29 of the 29 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, Nepal · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker29.65, 102.93 · in the densest population, 14 records (48% of those in range)
Kew's description“subshrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 29 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 21 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 15 km away. 3 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 29 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 29 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built; GBIF's observation records with coordinates hold none. Not a statement that none exist.

Other Gaultheria 45 in the reference

Gaultheria acuminata Gaultheria acuminata Ericaceae Photo: CC BY, Peter QuakenbushGaultheria adenothrix Gaultheria adenothrix Ericaceae Photo: CC BY, Kristof ZyskowskiGaultheria antarctica Gaultheria antarctica Antarctic mountainberry Photo: CC BY, Pablo SilvaGaultheria antipoda Gaultheria antipoda Bush snowberry Photo: CC BY, Duncan Cunningham Gaultheria apoensis Ericaceae Gaultheria borneensis Gaultheria borneensis Ericaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, jengru Gaultheria cardiosepala Ericaceae Gaultheria crassa Gaultheria crassa Scarlet snowberry Photo: CC0, author not statedGaultheria depressa Gaultheria depressa Mountain Snowberry Photo: CC BY, Oscar DoveGaultheria erecta Gaultheria erecta Ericaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedGaultheria foliolosa Gaultheria foliolosa Ericaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedGaultheria fragrantissima Gaultheria fragrantissima Ericaceae Photo: CC BY, Kalvin Chan all 46 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Gaultheria pyroloides var. cuneata. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Ericaceae
Described by
(Rehder & E.H.Wilson) Bean
Native to
China South-Central, Nepal
Wild records
29 in range · 21 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2229 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 11 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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