Vaccinium stamineum L.

DEERBERRY

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Five varieties were recognized for Florida by Ward (1974): var. caesium (pedicels and twigs without stipitate glands, fruit glabrous, flowers solitary and scattered, subtended by leaves of normal size or somewhat smaller, many leaf blades abaxially whitened-glaucous), var. glandulosum (pedicels and twigs densely stipitate-glandular), var. multiflorum (pedicels and twigs without stipitate glands, fruit pubescent, calyx and hypanthium sparingly pubescent, lacking stipitate glands, flowers in axils of normal sized leaves), var. sericeum (pedicels and twigs without stipitate glands, fruit pubescent, calyx and hypanthium densely hirsute, often with intermixed stipitate glands, flowers usually in axils of very reduced leaves), and var. stamineum (pedicels and twigs without stipitate glands, fruit glabrous, flowers in distinct inflorescences or sprays, subtended by greatly reduced leaves, leaf blades abaxially green).

Native FACU (NWPL)

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