Biology:Vaccinium glaucoalbum

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Short description: Species of plant in the genus Vaccinium

Vaccinium glaucoalbum
Vaccinium glaucoalbum.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Vaccinium
Species:
V. glaucoalbum
Binomial name
Vaccinium glaucoalbum
Hook.f. ex C.B.Clarke[1]

Vaccinium glaucoalbum, the grey-white blueberry, is a species of Vaccinium native to Nepal, east Himalaya, and Myanmar, and Tibet and Yunnan in China.[1] An evergreen shrub with white-bloomed black berries, it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit as an ornamental.[2] It grows in thickets and forest margins.[3] Local people collect and eat the fruit.[4]

Taxonomy

Vaccinium glaucoalbum was first described for science by Charles Baron Clarke in the third volume of Hooker's Flora of British India, published in 1882. Clarke attributed the name to Hooker.[1][5] In the same work, Clarke also described Vaccinium sikkimense.[6] Some sources agree this is a separate species,[7] while others treat it as a synonym of V. glaucoalbum.[8]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Vaccinium glaucoalbum Hook.f. ex C.B.Clarke". Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:858948-1. 
  2. "Vaccinium glaucoalbum grey-white blueberry". The Royal Horticultural Society. https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/42144/Vaccinium-glaucoalbum/Details. 
  3. "Vaccinium glaucoalbum in Flora of China @ efloras.org". http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242444176. 
  4. Hui, Pallabi K.; Tag, Hui; Jambhulkar, Sanjay; Ananthan, R.; Godugu, Chandraiah; Bansod, Sapana; Taram, Momang; Yanka, Hage et al. (2019). "Ethnobotanical notes on significant food and medicinal flora used by the indigenous Monpa and Nyishi communities of Arunachal Pradesh, India". Pleione 13 (2): 291. doi:10.26679/Pleione.13.2.2019.291-304. 
  5. Clarke, C.B. (1882), "Order LXXXI Vacciniaceae", in Hooker, J.D., The Flora of British India, 3, London: L. Reeve, pp. 442–455, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/456038, retrieved 5 February 2021  p. 453.
  6. Clarke (1882), p. 451.
  7. "Vaccinium sikkimense C.B.Clarke", Plants of the World Online (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:859139-1, retrieved 5 February 2021 
  8. {{citation | mode = cs1 | title = Vaccinium sikkimense | work = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) | url = https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?466129 | publisher = [[Organization:Agricultural Research ServAgricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) | access-date = 5 February 2021 }}

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