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A subgeneric classification of the genus Vaccinium and the metamorphosis of V. section Bracteata Nakai: more terrestrial and less epiphytic in habit, more continental and less insular in distribution

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The taxonomic integrity of Vaccinium section Bracteata sensu Sleumer was assessed using a variety of numerical measures on a data matrix created from 46 OTUs scored for 65 descriptors. These analyses supported a much restricted ambit for section Bracteata and the concomitant resurrection of section Nesococcus and section Euepigynium, a more cosmopolitan interpretation for section Eococcus and section Pyxothamnus as well as a new taxon, Vaccinium section Baccula-nigra Kloet, sect. nov. to accommodate V. fragile Franch. and its conspecifics. A key to all the sections as well as a brief description for each section is also provided.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the curators of L, K, BM, KUN, and KYO for timely access to their collections of Vaccinium, and Wanda Langley, Nancy Roscoe-Huntley, Shawna Singleton, Janet Ross, and Lisa Taul for facilitating electronic communication between the co-authors, and Rodger Evans and two anonymous reviewers for detailed comments on and suggestions for improvement of the manuscript. This research was supported by grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (A9599 to SPVK and A3430 to TAD).

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  1. K. C. Irving Environmental Centre, Acadia University, 32 University Avenue, Wolfville, NS, B4P 2R6, Canada

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  2. Green Plant Herbarium (TRT), Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C6, Canada

    T. A. Dickinson

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Vander Kloet, S.P., Dickinson, T.A. A subgeneric classification of the genus Vaccinium and the metamorphosis of V. section Bracteata Nakai: more terrestrial and less epiphytic in habit, more continental and less insular in distribution. J Plant Res 122, 253–268 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10265-008-0211-7

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