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Fructus Myrtilli
Definition
Fructus Myrtilli consists of the dried ripe fruits of Vaccinium myrtillus L.
(Ericaceae) (1).
Synonyms
Vaccinium angelosums Dulac, V. montanum Salisb., Myrtilis niger Gilib. (2).
Selected vernacular names
Adara, aiges, airadech, airelle myrtille, aires, airolle myrtille, arándano,
baceri mirtillo, baggiole, bagolo, Bickbeere, bilberry, bimbelas, blackberry,
blaeberry, Blaubeere, Blaubessen, blue berry, blueberry, bog bilberry,
brimbelle, burren myrtle, European blueberry, harilik, hei guo yue ju,
Heidelbeere, Heidelbeerfruchten, huckleberry, maurettes, mirtillo nero,
myrtille, petit myrtle, uva del boschi, uva orsina, waldbeere, whortleberry,
wineberry (2–4).
Geographical distribution
Found in Europe and in the North American Rocky Mountains (2, 5).
Description
Trailing shrub forming large colonies from creeping rhizomes, 10–60 cm
in height; twigs green, glabrous, 3-angled. Leaves: deciduous, alternate,
short petiolate; blade broadly elliptic to ovate, 6–18 mm wide, 10–30 mm
long, apex acute to obtuse, base rounded; margin serrulate; bright green,
lower surface sparsely glandular with prominent venation. Inflorescence:
flowers solitary or paired in leaf axils, bracts 2. Flowers: perfect, radially
symmetrical, 5-lobed; calyx lobes very short to almost absent; corolla pale
green or white to pink, broadly urceolate to globose, 4–7 mm wide, 3–5 mm
long, lobes very short and revolute; stamens 10, filaments glabrous, anthers
awned, dehiscent by terminal pores; ovary inferior, style usually included.
Fruit: berry, oblate-globose, 5–9 mm diameter, blue to black, rarely
glaucous, many-seeded. Chromosome number: 2x = 2n = 24 (2).
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