Vaccinium ardisioides Hook. fil. ex C. B. Cl.

Shrubs evergreen, usually epiphytic, 0.5–1.2 m tall, glabrous. Twigs terete; bud scales inconspicuous. Leaves 3–5-pseudoverticillate, sessile; leaf blade ovate or elliptic, 6–15 × 2.5–7 cm, papery to leathery, secondary veins 8–12(–14) pairs, spreading, fine veins raised abaxially, slightly raised adaxially, base broadly obtuse-rounded to narrowly cordate, margin plane, entire, without basal glands, apex acuminate. Inflorescences racemose, 2–4- in whorl of leaves, 7–10 cm, slender, sometimes glaucous, many secund flowered; bracts caducous. Pedicel purple, 0.5–1.5 cm, slender, thickened upwards. Hypanthium subglobose, ca. 2.3 mm; calyx limb ca. 2.2 mm, divided 1/3–2/5; calyx lobes triangular, ca. 1 mm. Corolla white-green, urceolate-tubular, 6–7 mm; lobes less than 1 mm. Filaments ca. 2.5 mm, subglabrous; anthers ca. 4.5 mm, papillate, without or with 2 small spurs; tubules ca. as long as thecae. Berry 10-pseudoloculed, purple-green, ca. 4 mm in diam.; fruit stalk purple-green. Fl. Mar, fr. May.

NW Yunnan (Dulongjiang) [Myanmar].

Below evergreen trees, usually epiphytic, riversides; 1000–1400 m.

Vaccinium ardisioides là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Thạch nam. Loài này được Hook. f. ex C.B. Clarke miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1882.

红梗越桔（学名：Vaccinium ardisioides）为杜鹃花科越桔属下的一个种。