Vaccinium glaucoalbum

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Ordo: Ericales

Familia: Ericaceae
Subfamilia: Vaccinioideae
Tribus: Vaccinieae
Genus: Vaccinium
Sectio: V. sect. Calcicolus
Species: Vaccinium glaucoalbum
Name

Vaccinium glaucoalbum Hook.f. ex C.B.Clarke
References

J. D. Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 3:453. 1882 "glauco-album"
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. [1]

Vaccinium glaucoalbum, the grey-white blueberry, is a species of Vaccinium native to Nepal, east Himalaya, and Myanmar, and Tibet and Yunnan in China.[1] An evergreen shrub with white-bloomed black berries, it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit as an ornamental.[2] Local people collect and eat the fruit.[3]

Taxononomy

Vaccinium glaucoalbum was first described for science by Charles Baron Clarke in the third volume of Hooker's Flora of British India, published in 1882. Clarke attributed the name to Hooker.[1][4] In the same work, Clarke also described Vaccinium sikkimense.[5] Some sources agree this is a separate species,[6] while others treat it as a synonym of V. glaucoalbum.[7]

References

"Vaccinium glaucoalbum Hook.f. ex C.B.Clarke". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
"Vaccinium glaucoalbum grey-white blueberry". The Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
Hui, Pallabi K.; Tag, Hui; Jambhulkar, Sanjay; Ananthan, R.; Godugu, Chandraiah; Bansod, Sapana; Taram, Momang; Yanka, Hage; Gupta, Debmalya D.; Paul, Dipayan; Tsering, Jambey; Tshering, Deki; Das, Tridip J.; Das, Sanjib K. (2019). "Ethnobotanical notes on significant food and medicinal flora used by the indigenous Monpa and Nyishi communities of Arunachal Pradesh, India". Pleione. 13 (2): 291. doi:10.26679/Pleione.13.2.2019.291-304.
Clarke, C.B. (1882). "Order LXXXI Vacciniaceae". In Hooker, J.D. (ed.). The Flora of British India. 3. London: L. Reeve. pp. 442–455. Retrieved 5 February 2021. p. 453.
Clarke (1882), p. 451.
"Vaccinium sikkimense C.B.Clarke". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
"Vaccinium sikkimense". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 5 February 2021.