Details for: PI 618123, Vaccinium meridionale Sw., V. meridonale NC 3737

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Vaccinium meridionale Sw.

Top Name:

V. meridonale NC 3737

Origin:

Collected – Colombia

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

13 Oct 1993

Improvement Status:

Wild material

Reproductive Uniformity:

Population

Form Received:

Plant

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Backup Location:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Availability

This accession is not available. Contact site for status.

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Vaccinium meridionale Sw.

Top Name:

V. meridonale NC 3737

Origin:

Collected – Colombia

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

13 Oct 1993

Improvement Status:

Wild material

Reproductive Uniformity:

Population

Form Received:

Plant

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Source History

Collected

Colombia

Donated

13 October 1993.
North Carolina, United States
Comment: Received from Ballington to NCGR-Corvallis
Donor(s):

Accession Names and Identifiers

V. meridonale NC 3737

Type: Site identifier

Group: SPECIES

accession preserved for genes

NC 3737

Type: Developer identifier

Group: OTHERNUM

other identifier

Received as V. corymbodendron

Type: Site identifier

Group: SYNONYM

CVAC 1148

Type: Site identifier

Group: LOCAL

Corvallis local number

Narrative

This accession is originally from Colombia.
Flowers of this clone produce lower quantities of pollen in the greenhouse than does CVAC 1146.
V. meridionale is known from the Caribbean-facing watershed slopes of northern Venezuela (Coastal Cordillera and Andes), westwards into the Andes of northern Colombia where it is common at midelevations, and then disjunct to the Caribbean island of Jamaica from where the type was described (Swartz, 1788). It is widespread in its range, but only locally common. Its habitat includes isolated populations in high montane cloud forest to sub-paramo thickets, where it is a shrub up to 3.5 m tall. Its elevational range stretches from ca. 1000 to 2800 m.

V. meridionale is characterized by small leaves. The blades are pinnately nerved and minutely crenate-serrate margined. The racemose inflorescences are small, 4- to 5-merous, white-to-pink, cylindric to ovoid-cylindric, glabrous flowers, with typically as many as 15 to 25 flowers per inflorescence. The fruit is usually spherical or, more rarely, slightly oblong or flattened, and 14 to 20 mm in diameter. Fruit develop as dark reddish, to dark maroon-black, to blue-black berries in which the top of the ovary is prominently convex or dome-shaped. The fruit is uniform in size when properly pollinated. The fruit is relatively thick-skinned, and the interior flesh pulpy. The thick skins are reflective of their high levels of antioxidants.

Vaccinium meridionale Sw.

Genus:

Vaccinium

Section:

Pyxothamnus

Family:

Ericaceae

Subfamily:

Vaccinioideae

Tribe:

Vaccinieae

Nomen number:

41033

Place of publication:

Prodr. 62. 1788

Verified:

08/22/2011 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	Andean blueberry	1	Vietmeyer, N. D., ed. 1989. Lost crops of the Incas. 219.
English	Colombian blueberry	1	Ligarreto, G. A. et al. 2011. Phenotypic plasticity of Vaccinium meridionale (Ericaceae) in wild populations of mountain forests in Colombia. Revista Biol. Trop. 59:569-583.
English	Jamaican bilberry	1	IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
Spanish	agraz	2	Ligarreto, G. A. et al. 2011. Phenotypic plasticity of Vaccinium meridionale (Ericaceae) in wild populations of mountain forests in Colombia. Revista Biol. Trop. 59:569-583.
Spanish	mortiño	2	Ligarreto, G. A. et al. 2011. Phenotypic plasticity of Vaccinium meridionale (Ericaceae) in wild populations of mountain forests in Colombia. Revista Biol. Trop. 59:569-583.

Annotations

Taxonomic Re-Identification: 15 Dec 1995, from Vaccinium spp. to Vaccinium corymbodendron Dunal
Taxonomic Re-Identification: 30 Mar 2021, from Vaccinium corymbodendron Dunal to Vaccinium meridionale Sw.

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Sample Size	Study	Inventory	Availability
CHEMICAL	Percent Soluble Solids	Percent Soluble Solids	14.1		Sampson et al. 2020 SWD antibiosis	CVAC 1148 .001 PL	Not Available
INSECT	SWD viable eggs per fruit	SWD viable eggs per fruit	.07		Sampson et al. 2020 SWD antibiosis	CVAC 1148 .001 PL	Not Available
INSECT	SWD larvae per fruit	SWD larvae per fruit			Sampson et al. 2020 SWD antibiosis	CVAC 1148 .001 PL	Not Available
INSECT	SWD reproductive rate	SWD reproductive rate			Sampson et al. 2020 SWD antibiosis	CVAC 1148 .001 PL	Not Available
INSECT	SWD adult mortality (percent)	SWD adult mortality (percent)			Sampson et al. 2020 SWD antibiosis	CVAC 1148 .001 PL	Not Available
INSECT	SWD Resistance Index	SWD Resistance Index			Sampson et al. 2020 SWD antibiosis	CVAC 1148 .001 PL	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	FRUIT WEIGHT	FRUIT WEIGHT IN GRAMS	0.28	15	Sampson et al. 2020 SWD antibiosis	CVAC 1148 .001 PL	Not Available