Markéta Teodoridu:
Vaccinium harmandianum Dop in Lecompte; Fl. Indo-Chine 3: 709. 1930.
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Shrubs or small trees; evergreen; 2–10 m tall; glabrous; rarely twigs and petioles pubescent. Twigs angled; bud scales inconspicuous. Leaves scattered; petiole 3–7 mm; leaf blade ovate or ovate-lanceolate; 5.5–12.5 x 2–5 cm; secondary veins 6 or 7 pairs; ascending; fine veins slightly raised abaxially; ± flat adaxially; base cuneate or broadly cuneate; margin plane; shallowly serrate; apex falciform-acuminate. Inflorescences racemose; 4–10 cm; 10–15-flowered; bracts caducous; lanceo-late; 5–6 mm. Pedicel 4–5 mm. Hypanthium ca. 1 mm; gla-brous; calyx lobes triangular-lanceolate; ca. 1.2 mm; margin glandular fimbriate. Corolla white or tinged with pink; tubular; 7–8 mm; lobes erect or reflexed; ca. 0.7 mm. Filaments ca. 1.8 mm; hairy; anthers ca. 2.5 mm; with 2 inconspicuous spurs; tubules ca. as long as thecae. Berry 10-pseudoloculed; purple; globose; 6–7 mm in diam. Fl. Apr–May; fr. Jun–Sep.
Evergreen forests; (800–)1000–1600 m. S Yunnan [Cambodia; Laos].
This species differs from Vaccinium mandarinorum by having the leaf blade falciform-acuminate at the apex; calyx lobes triangular-lan-ceolate with a glandular fimbrillate margin; and corolla tubular; 7–8 mm.
One of us (Stevens) questions whether Vaccinium harmandianum is the same as V. sprengelii (G. Don) Sleumer.