Fr: camarine noire, camarine à fruits noirs, graines à corbigeaux: Ia: assimin(an)akashi, assimin(an)
IA: assimin(an)akashi, assimin(an) (the fruit)
IU: paungaKutik (plant), paungak, paungngak, paungatuinnak (berry)
Provincial Status: LN
Range: Arctic-alpine circumpolar; S thr. Lab. & Nfld., subspecies range not defined.
[=Chamaetaxus nigra (L.) Bubani]
[=Empetrum arcticum V.N.Vassil.]
[=Empetrum crassifolium Raf.]
[=Empetrum medium Carmich.]
[=Empetrum nigrum L. forma ciliatum Jordal]
[=Empetrum nigrum L. forma cylindricum Lepage]
[=Empetrum nigrum L. forma leucocarpum Asch. ex Neuman]
[=Empetrum nigrum L. forma purpureum (Raf.) Fernald]
[=Empetrum nigrum L. var. leucocarpum (Asch. ex Neuman) Hegi]
[=Empetrum nigrum L. var. purpureum (Raf.) A.DC.]
[=Empetrum procumbens Gilib., nom. inval.]
[=Empetrum purpureum Raf.]
[=Empetrum scoticum Hook. ex Steud. 1840, nom. illeg. hom., non R.Thomps. 1826]
[=Empetrum scoticum R.Thomps.]
[=Empetrum subholarcticum V.N.Vassil. var. crassifolium (Raf.) V.N.Vassil.]
[The range of E. nigrum subsp. nigrum was reported in Löve & Löve (1959) as mainly Eurasian and Beringian, and not occurring in North America. However, this claim is refuted by more recent researchers in Nfld., who have reported subsp. nigrum to be characteristic of heathlands and lichen woodland in NL, and to be very common on the Avalon Peninsula and at lower altitudes (T. Ahti, J. Maunder, pers. comm., June 2015; W.J. Meades 1983). Plants of subsp. nigrum are dioecious, with separate male and female (unisexual) flowers on different plants. The FNA treatment (Vol. 8: 488) of Empetrum atropurpurpeum was unable to place Rafinesque’s Empetrum purpureum due to the unknown location of a type specimen, presumed to be from Labrador, but Fernald & Wiegand (1913) placed E. purpureum with Empetrum nigrum, a placement that will be followed here until its placement in otherwise confirmed.]
[Fernald’s 1911 accounts of Corema conradii are referred to Empetrum nigrum L.]