What is "lyonia"

Lyonia \Lyonia\ prop. n. A genus of evergreen or deciduous shrubs or small trees of the U. S. to the Antilles and eastern Asia to Himalaya.

Syn: genus Lyonia.

n. (context botany English) Any of the genus (taxlink Lyonia genus) of staggerbushes.

Lyonia is a genus name in biology:

• In animals - † Lyonia (brachiopod) Archbold, 1983 ( Brachiopoda: Strophomenida)
• In plants - Lyonia (plant)

Lyonia may also refer to:

• Lyonia (journal), a former journal on ecological research from the University of Hawaii

Lyonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. There are about 35 species native to Asia and North America.

These are shrubs and trees, deciduous or evergreen. Some have rhizomes. The leaves are spirally arranged and the inflorescences grow in the leaf axils. The flowers are usually white, sometimes red. The fruit is a capsule.

Species include:

• Lyonia elliptica
• Lyonia ferruginea
• Lyonia fruticosa
• Lyonia jamaicensis
• Lyonia ligustrina
• Lyonia lucida
• Lyonia maestrensis
• Lyonia mariana
• Lyonia octandra
• Lyonia ovalifolia
• Lyonia truncata

Lyonia was an electronic, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary scientific journal published by the Harold L. Lyon Arboretum and stored in the ScholarSpace digital institutional repository of the University of Hawaii at Manoa library. The journal was dedicated to the distribution of original ecological research and how it may be implemented in environmental protection. Papers published in Lyonia covered a range of disciplines including ecology, biology, anthropology, economics, law, etc. that pertain to conservation, management, sustainable development, and education in mountain and island settings. The journal was particularly interested in the mountain forests in tropical areas. Lyonia was first published in March 1974 and continued until December 1989.