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.