Vaccinium dissimile S. F. Blake J. Bot. 53: 271. 1915. Disterigma dissimile (S. F. Blake) S. F. Blake, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 35: 120. 1922. Type. Costa Rica. San José: La Palma, 1550 m, Aug 1898 (fl), Tonduz ("12546 herb. nat. Cost") J. Donn. Smith 7380 (lectotype, designated by Luteyn, 1987: K; isolectotypes: BM, F, US; photo of F type NY neg. 11925).Terrestrial, or more commonly, creeping epiphytic, viney shrublets with stems interwoven amongst bryophytes along ground or high in trees; stem wiry, perhaps to 1 m long and 1-1.5 mm diam.; twigs densely spreading puberulent, glabrous in age. Leaves coriaceous, ovate, lance-ovate or narrowly to broadly elliptic, 1-3(-4) x 0.8-1.5(-2) cm, base rounded to cuneate, apex acute, margin entire, revolute, glabrous above and beneath, also often sparsely to moderately appressed glandular-fimbriate beneath with fimbriae 0.1-0.2 mm long; petiole 1-2 mm long, puberulent. Inflorescence axillary, with solitary flowers; floral bract broadly reniform, rounded, ca. 0.3-0.4 mm long, glabrous; pedicel 1-2(-4 or fide A. C. Smith to 8) mm long, weakly hispidulous; bracteoles basal to medial, ovate to broadly oblong, opposite, obtuse to broadly rounded, 0.8-1 mm long and nearly as wide, puberulent. Flowers 4-merous, with calyx ca. 2.2-2.8 mm long; hypanthium campanulate, 0.8-1.2 mm long, densely hirsutulous with hyaline to golden-yellowish hairs 0.1-0.2 mm long; limb erect-spreading, ca. 1.3 mm long, sparsely hirsutulous; lobes broadly deltate, acute or obtuse, 0.7-0.8 mm long, moderately to densely hirsutulous; corolla campanulate, 7-10 mm long and 6-9 mm apical diam., dark red or maroon, sparsely and inconspicuously glandular-fimbriate with fimbriae 0.1-0.2 mm long, the lobes erect to spreading, deltate, acute, 1.5-2 x ca. 3.5 mm; stamens 8, ca. 4.3-5.8 mm long, black to borwnish-red; filaments 1.3-4 mm long, sparsely to densely pilose; anthers 2-3.3 mm long; thecae granular, ca. 1.7 mm long; tubules 1.6-2.5 mm long, dehiscing by a terminal pore (Ecuador) or an introrse cleft 0.5-0.7 mm long; style glabrous. Berry 4-angled, translucent white, 0.75-1 cm diam.Sphyrospermum campii A. C. Smith, Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 8(1): 45. 1952. Type. Ecuador. El Oro: Moromoro region, ca. 21 miles W of Portvelo, 1035-1280 m, 7 Oct 1944 (fl, fr), Camp E-633 (holotype: US, photo NY neg. 9665; isotypes: F, GH, K, MO, NY, P).
Distribution. Costa Rica, Panama, NW Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru; tropical wet forest, to premontane and montane cloud forest, at 600-1900 m altitude.
Vernacular name: kogh (Coaiquer, Ecuador).
