Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador
Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador
Ericaceae/Éricacées - Heath Family
Vaccinium oxycoccos L.
En: small cranberry, bog cranberry, mashberry, marshberry, tetraploid cranberry
Fr: canneberge commune, petite canneberge, atocas à petits fruits, grisette (SPM)
IA: massekuminanakashi, massekuminan (the fruit)
IU: kimminaujak (berry)
Provincial Status: LN
Range: Circumboreal; thr. Nfld., N to n-cLab. (ca. 55°N).

[=Oxycoca vulgaris Raf.]
[=Oxycoccus hagerupi Á.Löve & D.Löve]
[=Oxycoccus intermedius (A.Gray) Rydb.]
[=Oxycoccus ovalifolius (Michx.) A.E.Porsild]
[=Oxycoccus oxycoccos (L.) Adlophi 1987, nom. illeg. hom., non MacMill. 1892]
[=Oxycoccus oxycoccos (L.) MacMill.]
[=Oxycoccus oxycoccos (L.) MacMill. var. intermedius (A.Gray) Piper]
[=Oxycoccus oxycoccos (L.) MacMill. var. intermedius (A.Gray) Farw. 1923, nom. illeg. isonym., non (A.Gray) Piper 1906]
[=Oxycoccus palustris Pers.]
[=Oxycoccus palustris Pers. forma microphyllus Lange]
[=Oxycoccus palustris Pers. subsp. hagerupii (Á.Löve & D.Löve) A.P.Khokhr. & Mazurenko]
[=Oxycoccus palustris Pers. subsp. microphyllus (Lange) Á.Löve & D.Löve]
[=Oxycoccus palustris Pers. subsp. palustris]
[=Oxycoccus palustris Pers. var. intermedius (A.Gray) Howell]
[=Oxycoccus palustris Pers. var. major Lange]
[=Oxycoccus palustris Pers. var. ovalifolius (Michx.) F.Seym.]
[=Oxycoccus quadripetalus Gilib., nom. inval.]
[=Oxycoccus quadripetalus Schinz & Thell.]
[=Oxycoccus quadripetalus Schinz & Thell. subsp. microphyllus (Lange) Á.Löve & D.Löve]
[=Oxycoccus quadripetalus Schinz & Thell. var. microphyllus (Lange) Porsild]
[=Oxycoccus vulgaris Bong. 1832, nom. illeg. hom., non Hill 1756]
[=Oxycoccus vulgaris Hill]
[=Oxycoccus vulgaris Pursh 1814, nom. illeg. hom., non Hill 1756]
[=Schollera oxycoccos (L.) Roth]
[=Schollera paludosa Baumg., nom. illeg.]
[=Vaccinium hagerupii (Á.Löve & D.Löve) Rothm.]
[=Vaccinium hagerupii (Á.Löve & D.Löve) Ahokas 1971, nom. illeg. isonym., non (Á.Löve & D.Löve) Rothm. 1963]
[=Vaccinium oxycoccos L. subsp. microphyllum (Lange) Feilberg]
[=Vaccinium oxycoccos L. var. eradiatum Oakes]
[=Vaccinium oxycoccos L. var. intermedium A.Gray]
[=Vaccinium oxycoccos L. var. microphyllum (Lange) J.Rousseau & Raymond]
[=Vaccinium oxycoccos L. var. ovalifolium Michx.]
[=Vaccinium palustris Salisb.]

[Vaccinium oxycoccos, a tetraploid species (2n=48), is now considered distinct from the diploid Vaccinium microcarpum (2n=24); see T.W. Smith et al. (2015). Note that all northern cranberry herbarium specimens have not been annotated, so the exact ranges of V. oxycoccos and V. microcarpum in NL are uncertain.]

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