Bumelia lycioides (L.) Pers.
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Authority
Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden.
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Family
Sapotaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A glabrous usually armed shrub, or small tree, reaching a height of 8 meters. Stem clothed with a gray bark; leaves numerous; blades thickish but barely leathery, oblong, elliptic or rarely oblanceolate, 4-12 cm. long, acute or acuminate or rarely rounded at the apex, pale green and prominently reticulate on both surfaces, narrowed into petioles which are 5-12 mm. long; fascicles densely flowered; pedicels slender, 7-10 mm. long, hardly enlarged at the apex; sepals oval, or orbicular-ovate, 2 mm. long, the inner somewhat broader than the outer; corolla-lobes longer than broad; appendages lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate; staminodia ovate, 2-2.5 mm. long, boat-like, obtuse, often keeled; ovary hairy; berries oval, fully 1 cm. long.
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Distribution
In low or damp soil, Virginia to Illinois, south to Florida and Texas. Flowers in summer and matures its fruit in the fall.
Virginia United States of America North America|