Vaccinioideae

Vaccinioideae
Vaccinium uliginosum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Subfamily: Vaccinioideae
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Tribes
  • Andromedeae
  • Gaultherieae
  • Lyonieae
  • Oxydendreae
  • Vaccinieae

Vaccinioideae is a flowering-plant subfamily in the family Ericaceae.[1] It contains the commercially important cranberry, blueberry, bilberry, lingonberry, and huckleberry.

References

  1. Kathleen A. Kron, Walter S. Judd & Darren M. Crayn (1999). "Phylogenetic analyses of Andromedeae (Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae)". American Journal of Botany. 86 (9): 1290–1300. doi:10.2307/2656777. JSTOR 2656777. PMID 10487817.


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