Details for: PI 666918, Agapetes serpens (Wight) Sleumer, A. serpens Himalayas

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Agapetes serpens (Wight) Sleumer

Top Name:

A. serpens Himalayas

Origin:

Collected – Sikkim, India

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

13 Dec 2012

Improvement Status:

Wild material

Reproductive Uniformity:

Hybrid

Form Received:

Plant

Life Form:

Shrub

Life Habit:

Shrub

Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Agapetes serpens (Wight) Sleumer

Top Name:

A. serpens Himalayas

Origin:

Collected – Sikkim, India

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

13 Dec 2012

Improvement Status:

Wild material

Reproductive Uniformity:

Hybrid

Form Received:

Plant

Life Form:

Shrub

Life Habit:

Shrub

Source History

Collected

1997.
Sikkim, India
Locality: Sikkim Indian Himalayas
Coordinates: 27.3300, 88.6200 (Map it)

Donated

13 December 2012.
Washington, United States

Donor(s):

Hootman, Steve, Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden

Accession Group(s)

Group name: Agapetes
Note: Blueberry crop wild relative
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Accession Names and Identifiers

A. serpens Himalayas

Type: Site identifier

Group: SPECIES

accession preserved for genes

Himalayan Agapetes

Type: Collector identifier

Group: RHODODENDRON.BG.2012

Rhododendron Botanical Garden donation, Steve Hootman, Curator

CVAC 2106

Type: Site identifier

Group: LOCAL

Corvallis local number

Narrative

Agapetes serpens (Wight) Sleumer

Genus:

Agapetes

Family:

Ericaceae

Subfamily:

Vaccinioideae

Tribe:

Vaccinieae

Nomen number:

1669

Place of publication:

Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 70:105. 1939

Verified:

05/19/2015 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

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

Basionym
Vaccinium serpens Wight

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Pentapterygium serpens (Wight) Klotzsch

Common names

Language	Name	Alternate name	note	seq	Citation
Chinese	wu chi mei	五翅莓		2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Swedish	ampelljung			2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

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