title: 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.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: K. C. Irving Environmental Centre, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS B4P 2R6, Canada.
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Vander Kloet
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Dickinson
mesh_terms: D016000:Cluster Analysis; D017753:Ecosystem; D035264:Flowers / Q000502:physiology; D005638:Fruit / Q000502:physiology; D005843:Geography; D008675:Metamorphosis, Biological; D025341:Principal Component Analysis; D029796:Vaccinium / Q000145:classification*