Details for: PI 548938, Vaccinium floribundum Kunth, V. floribundum 14031


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium floribundum Kunth
Top Name:
V. floribundum 14031
Origin:
Collected – Carchi, Ecuador
Received by NPGS:
10 Dec 1990
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium floribundum Kunth
Top Name:
V. floribundum 14031
Origin:
Collected – Carchi, Ecuador
Received by NPGS:
10 Dec 1990
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Collected
02 November 1990.
Carchi, Ecuador
Locality: Tulean-El Angel road, approx. 9km SW of Pan American Hwy,
Coordinates: 0.8000, -77.8000 (Map it)
Elevation: 3385m.
Habitat: Wild Habitat
Environment description: Disturbed slopes through the subparamo.
Comment: Shrub, 1.0-1.5m tall. Leaves glaucous, young growth reddish, very attractive. Corollas white to rose-red, most plants mainly flowering. Mature fruit glaucous blue-black. Locally common. Wild. Seed.
Collector(s):
Donated
10 December 1990.
North Carolina, United States
Comment: Collected wild by Ballington et al and received at NCGR- Corvallis
Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
V. floribundum 14031
Type: Donor identifier

14031
Type: Site identifier
Group: OTHERNUM
other identifier

CVAC 837
Type: Site identifier
Group: LOCAL
Corvallis local number

SPECIES
Type: Site identifier
Group: CROPTYPE

JB 1090
Type: Exploration identifier
Group: PEO-EXPLORATIONS
Exploration ID links

Narrative
Shrub, 1.0-1.5m tall. Leaves glaucous, young growth reddish, very attractive. Corollas white to rose-red, most plants
Vaccinium floribundum Kunth
Genus:
Vaccinium
Section:
Pyxothamnus
Family:
Ericaceae
Subfamily:
Vaccinioideae
Tribe:
Vaccinieae
Nomen number:

41015
Place of publication:

F. W. H. A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. gen. sp. 3:208[folio]; 3:266[quarto], t. 251. 1819
Verified:
06/11/1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Vaccinium mortinia Benth.

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
EnglishColombian blueberry  1Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants Kampong Publications.
Spanishmortiño  2Vietmeyer, N. D., ed. 1989. Lost crops of the Incas.
Swedishmortino  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
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  • Located at NY. Inventory sample: PI 548938.
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Description:
Collected from the wild in Ecuador