Agapetes serpens
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The Latin specific epithet serpens means "snake-like".
This plant has received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Taxonomy
It was first described in 1847 as Vaccinium serpens by Robert Wight. In 1851 Johann Klotzch redescribed it as Pentapterygium serpens (a name which is not accepted). In 1939 Hermann Sleumer transferred it to the genus, Agapetes, to give the species its currently accepted name of Agapetes serpens.
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