Vaccinium ovatum Pursh

, Fl. Amer. Sept. (Pursh) 1: 290 (1813). BHL
IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:317276-2
Publication
Flora Americae Septentrionalis; or, a Systematic Arrangement and Description of the Plants of North America
Collation
1: 290
Date of Publication
Dec 1813
Family as entered in IPNI
Ericaceae

Type Information

Collector Team
A.Menzies s.n.
Type Herbaria
lectotype LINN
Distribution Of Types
Vancouver Island, British Columbia (Western Canada, Northern America)

Remarks

[Gandhi 1 Feb 1999] Reveal et al. (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 149: 50. 1999) also lectotypified this taxon, with a Menzies collection (BM) from California.

Links

Basionym of
Metagonia ovata (Pursh) Nutt., Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. ser. 2, 8: 264 (1842).
Same citation as
Vaccinium ovatum Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. (Pursh) 1: 290 (1813).
Hybrid Parent of
Vaccinium × brunoense P.W.Fritsch, Madroño 67(4): 203 (2021).