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Details for: PI 548939,
Vaccinium floribundum
Kunth, V. floribuntum 14036
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Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium floribundum
Kunth
Top Name:
V. floribuntum 14036
Origin:
Collected – Sucumbíos, Ecuador
Maintained:
National Clonal Germplasm Repository
Received by NPGS:
10 Dec 1990
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Backup Location:
National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium floribundum
Kunth
Top Name:
V. floribuntum 14036
Origin:
Collected – Sucumbíos, Ecuador
Maintained:
National Clonal Germplasm Repository
Received by NPGS:
10 Dec 1990
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Collected
06 November 1990.
Sucumbíos, Ecuador
Locality:
Road to Laguna San Marcos, approx. 13km E of Olmedo
Coordinates:
0.1167, -77.8667
(Map it)
Elevation:
3570m.
Habitat:
Wild Habitat
Environment description:
Shrub paramo, burned within the last 18 months.
Comment:
Shrub to 1.5m tall. Corolla white to rose-red. Berry blue- black, glaucous, to 9.5mm dia., abundant ripe fruit. Plants locally abundant. Wild. Seed.
Collector(s):
Ballington, James R., North Carolina State University
Luteyn, J.L., The New York Botanical Garden
Thompson, Maxine, National Clonal Germplasm Repository
Donated
10 December 1990.
North Carolina, United States
Comment:
Collected wild by Ballington et al and received at NCGR- Corvallis
Donor(s):
Ballington, James R., North Carolina State University
Accession Names and Identifiers
V. floribuntum 14036
Type: Donor identifier
14036
Type: Site identifier
Group: OTHERNUM
other identifier
CVAC 838
Type: Site identifier
Group: LOCAL
Corvallis local number
SPECIES
Type: Site identifier
Group: CROPTYPE
JB 1090
Type: Exploration identifier
Group: PEO-EXPLORATIONS
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Narrative
Shrub to 1.5m tall. Corolla white to rose-red. Berry blue-black, glaucous, to 9.5mm dia., abundant ripe fruit.
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
Language
Name
Alternate name
note
seq
Citation
English
Colombian blueberry
1
Facciola, S.
1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants Kampong Publications.
Spanish
mortiño
2
Vietmeyer, N. D., ed.
1989. Lost crops of the Incas.
Swedish
mortino
2
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson.
2012.
Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
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Herbarium specimen
Located at NY. Inventory sample: PI 548939.
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Description:
Collected from the wild in Ecuador
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Value
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Availability
GENSTOCK
VACCINIUM CORE SUBSET
A flag to indicate the accession is part of the core subset
YES
VACCINIUM.CORE.1998
Not Available