Vaccinium cereum var. pubiflorum Skottsb.

Vaccinium cereum var. pubiflorum Skottsberg

Vaccinium cereum var. pubiflorum Skottsberg, Acta horti Gothob. 8:89, fig. 19–25. 1933.

DESCRIPTION.—Pedicel, calyx, and corolla velutinous. The typical form with filaments glabrous.

TYPE.—Collected by Andersson in 1852.

RANGE.—Tahiti: Andersson, Fautaua Valley, 1852, flower and fruit (S, 2 sheets, fide Skottsberg); Grant 5613, Mahina, Aorai ridge, alt. 1364 m (4475 ft), in Metrosideros forest, 6 June 1930, fruit (BISH).

1b1. Vaccinium cereum var. pubiflorum f. skottsbergii Grant, new name

Vaccinium cereum var pubiflorum f. eriostemon Skottsberg, Acta horti Gothob. 8:89, fig. 26–29. 1933 [non V. cereum f. eriostemon Skottsberg, 1933].

DESCRIPTION.—As in var. pubiflorum, but filaments hirsute.

TYPE.—Collected by Moseley in 1875.

RANGE.—Society Islands: Tahiti: Moseley, alt. 1220 m (4000 ft), September 1875, flower (K, fide Skottsberg); Grant 3754, Pare, Fautaua Valley, ridge below Diadem, alt. 1021 m (3350 ft), in ridge forest, 13 May 1930, flower and fruit (BISH, MIN): St. John and Fosberg 17007, Orofena, s. ridge, 1700 m, 22 September 1934, flower and fruit (BISH).

Skottsberg applied the name eriostemon for the form with hairy filaments both to the typical variety and the var. pubiflorum, which latter is here renamed, since the same name cannot be used for different subspecific entities within a given species unless they are based on the same type.