Flora of North America species comparison

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Vaccinium sect. Oxycoccus
Leaves

persistent.
Inflorescences

solitary flowers, in axils of leaflike bracts at base of current season or older shoots.
Pedicels

articulated with calyx tube.
Flowers

(long-pedicellate);

sepals 4;

petals 4, slightly connate basally, corolla broadly ellipsoid;

stamens 8, exserted;

anthers without awns, tubules 2-6 mm, (slender), with terminal pores.
Berries

4-locular.
Seeds

3-12, (ca. 1 mm).
Vines

, trailing, sometimes ascending, 0.1-1.5 dm, not rhizomatous, (branches terete, slender, flexible, woody, glabrous or hairy, not verrucose, shoots from axillary buds).

Vaccinium sect. Oxycoccus
Distribution
North America; Eurasia; circumboreal
Discussion

Species 2 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 518.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium
Subordinate taxa
Synonyms Oxycoccus
Name authority (Hill) W. D. J. Koch: Syn. Fl. Germ. Helv. 474. 1837.
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