Vaccinium floribundumKunth

Andean blueberry

WFO wfo-0000423008 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Vaccinium floribundum, photographed by GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ
fig. a GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-18 / obs. 186480236
Vaccinium floribundum, photographed by Skjold Søndergaard
fig. b Skjold Søndergaard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167174170
Vaccinium floribundum, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. c Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149409205
Vaccinium floribundum, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. d Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142252347
Vaccinium floribundum, photographed by Luisa Matiz
fig. e Luisa Matiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114679421
Vaccinium floribundum, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. f Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107072885
Vaccinium floribundum, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. g Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107298880
Vaccinium floribundum, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. h Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 98894874

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Vaccinium floribundum is native: Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela Argentina NorthwestBoliviaColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorPanamáPeruVenezuela
Native distribution of Vaccinium floribundum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northwest AGW SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 18 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Metagonia crenulata (Dunal) Nutt.
  • Metagonia marginata (Dunal) Nutt.
  • Vaccinium callosum Griseb. ex Wedd.
  • Vaccinium crenulatum Dunal
  • Vaccinium dasygynum S.F.Blake
  • Vaccinium floribundum var. floribundum
  • Vaccinium floribundum var. marginatum (Dunal) Sleumer
  • Vaccinium floribundum var. ramosissimum (Dunal) Sleumer
  • Vaccinium floribundum var. tatei (Rusby) Sleumer
  • Vaccinium leiandrum S.F.Blake
  • Vaccinium marginatum Dunal
  • Vaccinium moritzianum Klotzsch
  • Vaccinium moritzianum var. ovatum Klotzsch
  • Vaccinium mortinia Benth.
  • Vaccinium polystachyum Benth.
  • Vaccinium ramosissimum Dunal
  • Vaccinium tatei Rusby
  • Vaccinium thymifolium Klotzsch

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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