Genus Vaccinium L.

section Vitis-Idaea


Summary
Genus number:
18663
Last updated:
23 January 2005
Family:
Ericaceae
Subfamily:
Vaccinioideae
Tribe:
Vaccinieae
Accession count:

110 (107  active, 1  available) in National Plant Germplasm System
Comments:


Synonyms

No images

Google Scholar   

References:
  1. Powell, E. A. & K. A. Kron. 2002. Hawaiian blueberries and their relatives - A phylogenetic analysis of Vaccinium sections Macropelma, Myrtillus, and Hemimyrtillus (Ericaceae). Syst. Bot. 27:768-779. www.aspt.net/systematic-botany
  2. Vander Kloet, S. P. & T. A. Dickinson. 2009. A subgeneric classification of the genus Vaccinium and the metamorphosis of V. section Bracteata Nakai: more terrestrial and less epiphytic in habit, more continental and less insular in distribution. J. Pl. Res. 122:253-268. Note: a monotypic section
  3. Vander Kloet, S. P. et al. 2002. From Nepal to Formosa, a much larger footprint for Vaccinium sect. Aëthopus. Acta Bot. Yunnan. 25:1-24.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://npgstest.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomygenus?id=18663. Accessed 11 May 2026.