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Vaccinium sect. Batodendron
Habit Shrubs or trees, erect, 20-100 dm, not rhizomatous.
Leaves

tardily deciduous.
Inflorescences

terminal, racemes, 5-17-flowered, borne on previous year’s shoots or on older woody stems.
Pedicels

articulated with calyx tube.
Flowers

sepals 5;

petals 5, connate for nearly their entire lengths, corolla campanulate to urceolate;

stamens 10, included;

anthers with awns, tubules 3-4 mm, with terminal pores.
Berries

pseudo 10-locular.
Seeds

2-7.

Vaccinium sect. Batodendron
Distribution
c United States; se United States; Mexico; Central America; West Indies
Discussion

Species 7 (1 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 524.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium
Subordinate taxa
Synonyms Batodendron
Name authority (Nuttall) A. Gray: Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s. 3: 53. (1846)
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