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Vaccinium stamineum

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Name

Identification
Vaccinium stamineum L. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Vaccinium stamineum L. [family ERICACEAE ] Verified by James L. Reveal,
Related name
  • Vaccinium frondosum
  • Vaccinium sp.
  • Vaccinium elevatum
  • Vaccinium stamineum
Common name
  • southern gooseberry, Flora of North America Vol. 8
  • Deerberry, Flora of North America Vol. 8

Flora

Entry for Vaccinium stamineum Linnaeus [family ERICACEAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 8,
Names
Vaccinium stamineum Linnaeus [family ERICACEAE], Sp. Pl., 1: 350. 1753 ,
Polycodium ashei Harbison [family ]
Polycodium candicans (C. Mohr) Small [family ]
Polycodium depressum Small [family ]
Polycodium floridanum (Nuttall) Greene [family ]
Polycodium leptosepalum Small [family ]
Polycodium macilentum Small [family ]
Polycodium melanocarpum (C. Mohr) Small [family ]
Polycodium neglectum Small [family ]
Polycodium stamineum (Linnaeus) Greene [family ]
Vaccinium caesium Greene [family ERICACEAE]
Vaccinium melanocarpum (C. Mohr) C. Mohr ex Kearney [family ERICACEAE]
Vaccinium neglectum (Small) Fernald [family ERICACEAE]
Vaccinium stamineum var. affine (Ashe) Sleumer [family ERICACEAE]
Vaccinium stamineum var. austromontanum (Ashe) Sleumer [family ERICACEAE]
Vaccinium stamineum var. interius (Ashe) E. J. Palmer & Steyermark [family ERICACEAE]
Vaccinium stamineum var. melanocarpum C. Mohr [family ERICACEAE]
Vaccinium stamineum var. neglectum (Small) Deam [family ERICACEAE]
Vaccinium stamineum var. virginianum (Ashe) Sleumer [family ERICACEAE]
Treatment Author(s)
Sam P. Vander Kloet
Information
Plants frequently crown-forming, suckering when disturbed, forming small or extensive colonies; twigs of current season variously colored, most often green or glaucous, glabrous to densely hairy, sometimes pilose or glandular (not verrucose). Leaf blades usually pale green or glaucous abaxially, green adaxially, elliptic, 20–80 × 9–32 mm, ± membranous, margins usually entire, inrolled on more-coriaceous blades, surfaces glabrous or densely hairy, rarely glandular. Inflorescences 2–7-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary. Pedicels subtended by leaflike bract (ca. as long as flower). Flowers: corolla lobes spreading at anthesis, white to greenish white, sometimes purple veined, 4–8 mm; filaments glabrous or hairy. Berries green, yellow-green, yellow, purple, or black, often lightly glaucous, 7–18 mm diam., sometimes hairy and sparsely glandular. 2n = 24.
Shrubs, erect, to 4 dm, rhizomatous or not, (twigs sharply angled to terete, buds covered by 2 partially fused prophylls). Leaves deciduous, rarely subpersistent, (usually distichous). Inflorescences solitary flowers in axils of proximalmost leaves of leafy shoots of current year. Pedicels continuous with calyx tube. Flowers: sepals 5, (ca. 2 mm); petals 5, connate for nearly their entire lengths, corolla (closed in bud), globose to urceolate; stamens 10, included; anthers with conspicuous awns, tubules ca. 1–2 mm, with terminal pores. Berries 5-locular (each locule containing 10–50 ovules). Seeds (3–)10–35.
Phenology
Flowering spring(–early summer)
Altitude range
0–1700 m
Distribution
Mexico (Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí).North AmericaMexicoCentral America (Guatemala)EuropeAsia.USA Ala.USA Ark.USA Conn.USA Del.USA D.C.USA Fla.USA Ga.USA Ill.USA Ind.USA Kans.USA Ky.USA La.USA Md.USA Mass.USA Miss.USA Mo.USA N.J.USA N.Y.USA N.C.USA OhioUSA Okla.USA Pa.USA R.I.USA S.C.USA Tenn.USA Tex.USA Va.USA W.Va.Canada Ont.
Discussion
Vaccinium stamineum has been subject to an inordinate amount of splitting, especially by E. L. Greene and W. W. Ashe (see S. P. Vander Kloet 1988).
45f. Vaccinium Linnaeus sect. Myrtillus Dumortier, Fl. Belg., 53. 1827
Section Myrtillus is restricted to the Northern Hemisphere and has its greatest diversity along the Pacific Rim from Japan to Guatemala (S. P. Vander Kloet and T. A. Dickinson 1999). All of the seven species of this section occur in the flora area; Vaccinium ovalifolium also occurs in eastern Asia, V. caespitosum extends southward to Guatemala, and V. myrtillus is circumboreal. Species of the section are commonly called huckleberries, blueberries, bilberries, or whortleberries. All produce edible fruit, and most were food sources for Native American peoples in western North America. Although none has been domesticated, some species show potential for commercial cultivation.

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