Abstract: Numerical analyses of 76 operational taxonomic units alleged to belong to or be associated with Vaccinium sect. Vitis-idaea at one time or other , and scored for 44 features , resolved the following; Vaccinium sect. Vitis-idaea, consistently clustered together and are classified as V. sect. Aethopus . The remaining 20 OTU's comprise 10 taxa , each quite distinct , but no obvious sectional pattern was dicerned.

Key words: Genus Vaccinium

摘要： 对越桔属Vaccinium中曾经被认为属于越桔组sect.Vitis-idaea的种或与之相关的76个运算上的分类单位进行数值分析，并记录了44个特征，解析如下：Vaccinium sect.Vitisidaea应是局限于越桔V.vitis-idaea这个种而言；5个喜马拉雅的分类单位: V.nummularia,V.paucicrenatum,V.delavayi,V.retusum,V.moupinense,有2个表面上类似V.vitis-idaea的分类单位，运算上总是聚类在一起都被归入少齿越桔组sect.Aёthopus.其余20个操作分类单位(OTU)包含10个分类单位，每个都十分特殊，但没有显著的片段的样式可分辨。

关键词: 越桔属, 少齿越桔组, 数值分类, 分类