Taxon: Vaccinium elliottii Chapm.

Economic importance:

• Gene sources: secondary genetic relative of highbush blueberry   (based on the production of 3x or 4x hybrids with 4x Vaccinium corymbosum fide Euphytica 94:18. 1997)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia [s.e.]
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

References:

• Ballington, J. R. 2009. The role of interspecific hybridization in blueberry improvement. Acta Hort. 810:49–60.
• Clark, R. C. 1971. The woody plants of Alabama. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 58:225.
• Clewell, A. F. 1985. Guide to the vascular plants of the Florida panhandle. [= V. corymbosum L.].
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. [= V. corymbosum L.].
• Hancock, J. F. et al. 2008. Blueberries and cranberries. In: Hancock, J. F., ed., Temperate fruit crop breeding: germplasm to genomics. 4:115–149.
• Lyrene, P. 1995. In defense of Vaccinium elliottii. Palmetto 15(4):9–11.
• Lyrene, P. 1997. Value of various taxa in breeding tetraploid blueberries in Florida. Euphytica 94:15–22. [this study recognized this diploid species distinct from Vaccinium corymbosum diploid populations in Florida].
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Uttal, L. J. 1987. The genus Vaccinium L. (Ericaceae) in Virginia. Castanea 52:244.
• Vander Kloet, S. P. 1980. The taxonomy of the highbush blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum. Canad. J. Bot. 58:1195. [= V. corymbosum L.].
• Vander Kloet, S. P. 1988. The genus Vaccinium in North America. [= V. corymbosum L.].
• Vander Kloet, S. P. 1996. Vaccinium. In: J. L. Luteyn et al., Ericaceae of the southeastern United States. Castanea 61:141. [= V. corymbosum L.].
• Wunderlin, R. P. 1982. Guide to the vascular plants of central Florida. [= V. corymbosum L.].

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Vaccinium elliottii.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Vaccinium elliottii.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Vaccinium elliottii.

Check other web resources for Vaccinium elliottii Chapm.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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