17.
Vaccinium myrsinites
Lamarck in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl. 1: 73. 1783.
Shiny blueberry
Cyanococcus myrsinites
(Lamarck) Small;
Vaccinium nitidum
Andrews
Plants
forming extensive open colonies, 1.4-10 dm; twigs bright green, ± angled, hairy in lines.
Leaves
persistent for 1+ years; blade green, elliptic, 5-9 × 3-5 mm, coriaceous, margins ± serrulate, surfaces glandular abaxially.
Flowers:
calyx pinkish white, becoming greenish, glabrous; corolla white to pink or red, ± urceolate, 4-8 mm; filaments ciliate along margins.
Berries
black, 7-9 mm diam., glabrous.
Seeds
4-13, ca. 1 mm.
2
n
= 24, 48.
Flowering winter-spring. Flatwoods, sand-pine scrub, oak-palmetto scrub, scrubby flatwoods, rosemary balds; 0-30 m; Ala., Fla., Ga., S.C.
