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Details for: PI 555358,
Vaccinium pallidum
Aiton, V. pallidum NC 78-1
Summary
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Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium pallidum
Aiton
Top Name:
V. pallidum NC 78-1
Origin:
Collected – North Carolina, United States
Maintained:
National Clonal Germplasm Repository
Received by NPGS:
14 Feb 1983
Improvement Status:
Breeding material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Availability
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium pallidum
Aiton
Top Name:
V. pallidum NC 78-1
Origin:
Collected – North Carolina, United States
Maintained:
National Clonal Germplasm Repository
Received by NPGS:
14 Feb 1983
Improvement Status:
Breeding material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Collected
1979.
North Carolina, United States
Locality:
Newton Grove, open cut-over pine and oak woodland
Coordinates:
35.2500, -78.3333
(Map it)
Habitat:
Wild Habitat
Environment description:
Newton Grove, open cut-over pine and oak woodland
Collector(s):
Galletta, G. J., USDA, ARS
Developed
North Carolina, United States
Developer(s):
Ballington, James R., North Carolina State University
Donated
14 February 1983.
North Carolina, United States
Comment:
Collected from the wild in N.Carolina to Ballington to NCGR- Corvallis
Donor(s):
Ballington, James R., North Carolina State University
Accession Names and Identifiers
V. pallidum NC 78-1
Type: Site identifier
Group: SPECIES
accession preserved for genes
NC 78-1
Type: Collector identifier
Group: OTHERNUM
other identifier
CVAC 212
Type: Site identifier
Group: LOCAL
Corvallis local number
Blueridge Blueberry, Low Bilberry
Type: Local name
SPECIES
Type: Site identifier
Group: CROPTYPE
Narrative
Ericacous species, very abundant. Received as Vaccinium pallidum
Vaccinium pallidum
Aiton
Genus:
Vaccinium
Section:
Cyanococcus
Family:
Ericaceae
Subfamily:
Vaccinioideae
Tribe:
Vaccinieae
Nomen number:
41049
Place of publication:
Hort. kew. 2:10. 1789
Protologue link:
https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4864427
Verified:
01/14/2010
by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Vaccinium altomontanum
Ashe
Vaccinium vacillans
Kalm ex Torr.
Common names
Language
Name
Alternate name
note
seq
Citation
English
Blue Ridge blueberry
1
FNA Editorial Committee.
1993-.
Flora of North America.
English
blueberry
1
American Herbal Products Association.
1992. Herbs of commerce
English
dryland blueberry
1
Ballington, J. R.
2009. The role of interspecific hybridization in blueberry improvement. Acta Hort. 810:49-60.
English
hillside blueberry
1
Vander Kloet, S. P.
1996.
Vaccinium
. In: J. L. Luteyn et al., Ericaceae of the southeastern United States. Castanea 61:141.
English
hillside lowbush blueberry
1
Uttal, L. J.
1987. The genus
Vaccinium
L. (Ericaceae) in Virginia. Castanea 52:242.
English
late lowbush blueberry
1
FNA Editorial Committee.
1993-.
Flora of North America.
Swedish
bergsblåbär
2
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson.
2012.
Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Name
References
Annotations
Nomenclature Name Change:
10 Jun 1992, from
Vaccinium vacillans
Kalm ex Torr. to
Vaccinium pallidum
Aiton
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Pedigree
Description:
Selected from the wild in N. Carolina
Material Transfer Agreement
Observations
Phenotype Data
Category
Descriptor
Description
Value
Sample Size
Study
Inventory
Availability
GENSTOCK
VACCINIUM CORE SUBSET
A flag to indicate the accession is part of the core subset
YES
VACCINIUM.CORE.1998
Not Available