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Accession Data:

Macleania coccoloboides A.C.Smith

  • Common Name:
  • Family: Ericaceae Juss.

  • Country of Origin: Ecuador (endemic)
  • Habitat: premontane to montane moist cloud and rainforest, at 1780-3350m

  • Description: Terrestrial or epiphytic shrub, to 5 m tall, often growing from a lignotuber to 0.3 m diam.
  • Uses: The fruit is very juicy but insipid
  • USDA Zone: 10b-11

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 200201584
  • Source: Opel ex NYBG
  • Provenance: 
    Name citation in Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. viii. 69 (1952). 
NYBG# 700 89B
  • Accession Date: 02-14-2002
  • Bench: 3316 - NEOB: West Bench NN
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 02-21-2023
  • Restrictions:
    • Distribution Agreement (CBD or similar) - Plants do not leave Greenhouse/TLS w/o Manager approval!

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: asterids
  • Order: Ericales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Ericaceae
  • SubFamily: Vaccinioideae
  • Tribe: Vaccinieae
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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References (internal):

  • Bird Pollination (ornithophily)
  • Endemism (endemic)
  • EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Ecuador

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 3 June 2015.
  2. Macleania coccoloboides at Strange Wonderful Things. Accessed 3 June 2015.

data regenerated on Sat, 25 Feb 2023 12:51:17 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

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Current Accessions in the Ericaceae

Subfamily Ericoideae
Tribe Rhodoreae

  • Rhododendron unidentified - sp (sect. vireya)

Subfamily Vaccinioideae
Tribe Vaccinieae

  • Anthopterus wardii
  • Ceratostema rauhii
  • Macleania coccoloboides
  • Macleania insignis
  • Sphyrospermum dissimile
W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
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= accession added within past 90 days
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