Vaccinium oxycoccos agg.

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Habitus and growth type

  • Height [m]: 0.01–0.06
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  • Growth form: dwarf shrub
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  • Life form: chamaephyte
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  • Life strategy: CS – competitor/stress-tolerator
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Leaf

  • Leaf presence and metamorphosis: leaves present, not modified
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  • Leaf arrangement (phyllotaxis): alternate
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  • Leaf shape: simple – entire
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  • Stipules: absent
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  • Petiole: present
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  • Leaf life span: evergreen
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  • Leaf deciduousness in woody plants: evergreen
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  • Leaf anatomy: scleromorphic
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  • Functional leaf type in woody plants: sclerophyllous
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Flower

  • Flowering period [month]: June–July
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  • Flowering phase: 5 Sorbus aucuparia-Galium odoratum (end of mid-spring)
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  • Flower colour: pink
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  • Flower symmetry: actinomorphic
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  • Perianth type: calyx and corolla
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  • Perianth fusion: fused
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  • Shape of the sympetalous corolla or syntepalous perianth: rotate
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  • Calyx fusion: synsepalous
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  • Inflorescence type: racemus, flores solitarii
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  • Dicliny: synoecious
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  • Generative reproduction type: mixed mating
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  • Pollination syndrome: wind-pollination, insect-pollination, selfing
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Fruit, seed and dispersal

  • Fruit type: fleshy fruit – berry
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  • Fruit colour: red
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  • Reproduction type: mostly vegetatively, rarely by seed/spores
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  • Dispersal unit (diaspore): seed, fruit, infrutescence or its part
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  • Dispersal strategy: Cornus (mainly autochory and endozoochory)
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  • Myrmecochory: non-myrmecochorous (b)
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Belowground organs and clonality

  • Shoot metamorphosis: stolon
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  • Type of clonal growth organ: stolon, epigeogenous rhizome
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  • Freely dispersible organs of clonal growth: absent
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  • Shoot life span (cyclicity): dicyclic or polycyclic shoots prevailing
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  • Branching type of stem-derived organs of clonal growth: sympodial
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  • Primary root: absent
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  • Persistence of the clonal growth organ [year]:
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  • Number of clonal offspring: 0.5
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  • Lateral spreading distance by clonal growth [m]: 0.13
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  • Bud bank

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  • Number of buds per shoot at the soil surface (root buds excluded):
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  • Number of buds per shoot at the soil surface (root buds included):
  • Number of buds per shoot at a depth of 0–10 cm (root buds included):
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Trophic mode

  • Parasitism and mycoheterotrophy: autotrophic
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  • Carnivory: non-carnivorous
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  • Symbiotic nitrogen fixation: no nitrogen-fixing symbionts
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Karyology

  • Chromosome number (2n): 24, 48, 60, 72
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  • Ploidy level (x): 2, 4, 5, 6
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  • 2C genome size [Mbp]: 2842.98
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  • 1Cx monoploid genome size [Mbp]: 642.78
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Taxon origin

  • Origin in the Czech Republic: native
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Ecological indicator values

  • Ellenberg-type indicator values

  • Light indicator value: 7x – half-light plant, mostly occurring at full light, but also in the shade up to about 30% of diffuse radiation incident in an open area (generalist)
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  • Temperature indicator value: 4 – transition between values 3 and 5
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  • Moisture indicator value: 9 – wetness indicator, focus on often soaked, poorly aerated soils
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  • Reaction indicator value: 2x – transition between values 1 and 3 (generalist)
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  • Nutrient indicator value: 1 – occurring at nutrient-poorest sites
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  • Salinity indicator value: 0 – not salt tolerant, glycophyte
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  • Indicator values for disturbance

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  • Whole-community disturbance frequency indicator value: -1.8
  • Herb layer disturbance frequency indicator value: -1.65
  • Whole-community disturbance severity indicator value: 0.04
  • Herb layer disturbance severity indicator value: 0.05
  • Whole-community structure based disturbance indicator value: 0.42
  • Herb layer structure-based disturbance indicator value: 0.33

Habitat and sociology

  • Occurrence in habitats

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  • 3 Aquatic vegetation

  • 3C Macrophytic vegetation of oligotrophic lakes and pools: 1 – rare occurrence
  • 4 Wetland and riverine herbaceous vegetation

  • 4G Tall-sedge beds: 1 – rare occurrence
  • 5 Vegetation of springs and mires

  • 5E Acidic moss-rich fens and peatland meadows: 1 – rare occurrence
  • 5F Transitional mires: 2 – optimum
  • 5G Raised bogs: 2 – optimum
  • 5H Wet peat soils and bog hollows: 2 – optimum
  • 6 Meadows and mesic pastures

  • 6F Intermittently wet Molinia meadows: 1 – rare occurrence
  • 12 Forests

  • 12P Peatland pine forests: 2 – optimum
  • 12Q Peatland birch forests: 2 – optimum
  • 12R Acidophilous spruce forests: 2 – optimum
  • Diagnostic taxon

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  • Constant taxon

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  • Dominant taxon

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  • Ecological specialization indices

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  • Ecological specialization index for all vegetation types: 5
  • Ecological specialization index for non-forest vegetation: 5
  • Ecological specialization index for forest vegetation: 6.6

Distribution and frequency

  • Floristic zone: arctic, boreal, northern temperate, southern temperate, submeridional
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  • Floristic region: circumpolar
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  • Elevational belt in the Czech Republic: colline belt, submontane belt, montane belt, subalpine belt
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  • Occurrence frequency in the basic grid mapping cells and quadrants of the basic grid mapping cells: 174, 357
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  • Commonness in vegetation plots from the Czech Republic

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  • Occurrence frequency in vegetation plots: 1.4 %
  • Occurrence frequency in vegetation plots with a cover above 5%: 32.5 %
  • Occurrence frequency in vegetation plots with a cover above 25%: 7 %
  • Occurrence frequency in vegetation plots with a cover above 50%: 1.4 %
  • Mean percentage cover in vegetation plots: 7.9 %
  • Maximum percentage cover in vegetation plots: 63 %
  • Number of habitats with taxon occurrence in the Czech Republic

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  • Number of narrow habitats in which the taxon occurs: 10
  • Number of narrow habitats in which the taxon has its optimum: 6
  • Number of broad habitats in which the taxon occurs: 5
  • Number of broad habitats in which the taxon has its optimum: 2
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