Vaccinium
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
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Family
Ericaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Shrubs, erect or less frequently clambering, or rarely trees. Leaves alternate, pinnately veined, entire or serrate, coriaceous, petiolate. Inflorescences of axillary racemes, less frequently the flowers solitary or in pairs; pedicels usually bibracteate. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic. Calyx tubular to globose, with 4-5 lobes at the apex; corolla cylindrical, urceolate, or campanulate, white, green, red, or yellowish, with 4-5 more or less deep lobes; stamens 8-10, as long as the corolla; ovary inferior or partially inferior, 4-5-locular, the style terminal, single, the stigma simple or capitate. Fruit a berry, with the sepals persistent on the apical portion; seeds 5-numerous, minute. A genus of about 300 species, mostly of the Northern Hemisphere and in the montane forests of the tropics.