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Taxon:
Vaccinium formosum
Andrews
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Vaccinium
Section:
Cyanococcus
Family:
Ericaceae
Subfamily:
Vaccinioideae
Tribe:
Vaccinieae
Nomen number:
317473
Place of publication:
Bot. Repos. 2: t. 97. 1800
Comment:
authorship of names in this work follows
Shenzhen ICN
46.8; there is no internal evidence in the work for any author other than Andrews (fide K. Gandhi, pers. comm. on 7 Aug 2006)
Verified:
06/10/1992
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0
(
0
active,
0
available)
in National Plant Germplasm System.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Vaccinium australe
Small
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Reference(s)
Ballington, J. R.
2009. The role of interspecific hybridization in blueberry improvement. Acta Hort. 810:49-60.
Camp, W. H.
1945. The North American blueberries with some notes on other groups of Vacciniaceae. Brittonia 5:203-275.
Note:
this review considered
Vaccinium formosum
sensu stricto a synonym of
V. fuscatum
, although noting that "perhaps is not strictly a synonym of
fuscatum
"
FNA Editorial Committee.
1993-. Flora of North America.
URL:
http://floranorthamerica.org/
Note:
=
Vaccinium corymbosum
L.
Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Note:
=
Vaccinium australe
Small
Kartesz, J. T.
1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
Prescott-Allen, R. & C. Prescott-Allen.
1990. How many plants feed the world? Conservation Biol. 4:365-374.
Note:
mentions; =
Vaccinium australe
Small
Uttal, L. J.
1986. Updating the genus
Vaccinium
L. (Ericaceae) in West Virginia. Castanea 51:223.
Uttal, L. J.
1987. The genus
Vaccinium
L. (Ericaceae) in Virginia. Castanea 52:247.
Vander Kloet, S. P.
1980. The taxonomy of the highbush blueberry,
Vaccinium corymbosum
. Canad. J. Bot. 58:1195.
Note:
=
Vaccinium corymbosum
L.
Vander Kloet, S. P.
1988. The genus
Vaccinium
in North America
Note:
=
Vaccinium corymbosum
L.
Weakley, A. S.
2011. Flora of the southern and middle Atlantic states.
URL:
http://www.herbarium.unc.edu/flora.htm
Common names
English
southern highbush blueberry –
Reference(s)
swamp highbush blueberry –
Reference(s)
Distribution
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Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
1
Native
Northern America
Northeastern U.S.A.
United States
New Jersey
s.
1
Native
Northern America
Southeastern U.S.A.
United States
Alabama
s.e.
1
Native
Northern America
Southeastern U.S.A.
United States
Delaware
1
Native
Northern America
Southeastern U.S.A.
United States
Florida
n.
1
Native
Northern America
Southeastern U.S.A.
United States
Georgia
1
Native
Northern America
Southeastern U.S.A.
United States
Maryland
e.
1
Native
Northern America
Southeastern U.S.A.
United States
North Carolina
e.
1
Native
Northern America
Southeastern U.S.A.
United States
South Carolina
1
Native
Northern America
Southeastern U.S.A.
United States
Virginia
e.
Native
Northern America
NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.:
United States
[New Jersey (s.)]
SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.:
United States
[Alabama (s.e.), Delaware, Florida (n.), Georgia, Maryland (e.), North Carolina (e.), South Carolina, Virginia (e.)]
Economic Uses
Usage
Type
Note
Reference
Human food
fruit
as
Vaccinium australe
Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening 4:593.
Name
References