Vaccinium

genus of plants
Taxon taxon Q5079636
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Summary

Vaccinium is a taxon[1]. Vaccinium ranks in the top 0.68% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,403 views/month, #1,324 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: genus[3]
  • Parent taxon: Vaccinioideae[4]
  • Taxon name: Vaccinium[5]
  • Commons category: Vaccinium[6]
  • Taxonomic type: bog bilberry[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Vaccinium[8]
  • Commons gallery: Vaccinium[9]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[10], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 57(3)[12]
  • GRIN URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=12610[13]
  • This taxon is source of: blueberry[14], blueberry scent[15]
  • Taxon common name: blueberry[16], Bosbes[17], airelle[18], боровинки[19], 越桔属[20], 越橘属[21], vakcinij[22]
  • Different from: Q9178053[23]
  • Has fruit type: berry[24]

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Identifiers

Recorded iNaturalist taxon ID include 48353[25] and 203658[26]. Vaccinium's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 13749[27]. Vaccinium's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 39882409[28]. Vaccinium's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2882813[29]. Vaccinium's ITIS TSN is recorded as 23571[30].

Why It Matters

Vaccinium has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] Vaccinium is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Genera Plantarum. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Genera Plantarum. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . botany.si.edu. Retrieved . botany.si.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [27] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [30] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [28] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [29] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . Nederlands Soortenregister. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 57(3). wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . A new list of threatened woody species in China under future global change scenarios. wikidata.org.
  24. [22] ↑ . The Little Flora of Slovenia (3rd ed.). wikidata.org.
  25. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0412728-brusnice
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0412728-brusnice, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  2. 19w ago · AdamSeattle · 2026-06-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    This taxon is source of → blueberry, blueberry scent
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ This taxon is source of: Q140077208"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Otto's encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 57(3)
    Described at url → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 28842, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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