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Fructus Macrocarponii
Definition
Fructus Macrocarponii consists of the fresh or dried ripe fruit of Vaccinium
macrocarpon Ait. (Ericaceae) (1).
Note: Cranberry liquid preparation is official in the United States Pharmacopeia
(2).
Synonyms
Oxycoccus macrocarpus (Alt.) Pursh., O. painstris var. macrocarpus (1).
Selected vernacular names
Afonya, American cranberry, bear berry, black cranberry, cranberry,
Kronsbeere, large cranberry, low cranberry, marsh apple, Moosbeere,
Preisselbeere, suureviljaline jõhvikas, trailing swamp cranberry (1, 3, 4).
Geographical distribution
Native to eastern North America (1).
Description
Trailing evergreen shrub up to 15 cm in height; rhizomatous. Stem: slender,
glabrous to hairy, rooting at nodes. Leaf: simple, alternate, sub-sessile; blade
narrowly elliptic, rarely oblong, (5–) 7–10 (–18) mm long, (2–) 3–4 (–5) mm
wide, apex rounded; leathery, upper surface green, lower surface glaucous;
margin entire, rarely revolute. Inflorescence: flowers solitary in leaf axils of
new shoots; bracts 2, green, 1–2 mm wide; pedicels 2–3 cm, recurved, jointed
to the flower. Flower: perfect, radially symmetrical with a nectariferous
disc surrounding the style; calyx 4-lobed; corolla white to pink, cup-shaped,
4-lobed with lobes much longer than cup and strongly reflexed at anthesis;
stamens 8, filaments with stiff hairs along margins, anthers dehiscent by
apical pores; ovary inferior, style 1, stigma capitate. Fruit: berry, globose,
9–20 mm in diameter, glabrous, red to crimson, dark burgundy or almost
black, many-seeded. Chromosome number: n = 12 (1).
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