Persea humilis
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 157. 1895.
Common names: Silk bay
Endemic
Synonyms: Persea borbonia var. humilis (Nash) L. E. Kopp Tamala humilis (Nash) Small
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 3.
Shrubs or small trees, to 10 m. Branches appressed-pubescent. Leaf-blade elliptic to lance-elliptic, 5-8 × 1.5-2.5 cm; surfaces abaxially obscured by dense (silky), rusty brown, appressed hairs when young, appearing sooty with age, adaxially green, lustrous. Inflorescences: peduncle mostly shorter than subtending petiole, pubescent. Drupe 10-12 cm wide, glaucous.
Phenology: Flowering spring–early summer.
Habitat: Sand pine-scrub
Elevation: 0-100 m
Discussion
Persea humilis produces fewer flowers and fruits per peduncle than the preceding two species.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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sooty +
4-valved +
latrorse +
reddish-brown +
fissured +
thin +
persistent +
decussate +
deciduous +
appressed-pubescent +
Silk bay +
absent +
Fla. +
absent +
dark blue;black +
seated +
glaucous +
globose +
absent +
accrescent +
reddish;usually yellow;greenish or white +
bisexual +
dense +
appressed +
lustrous +
developed +
perigynous +
axillary +
absent +
veined +
unlobed +
1.5cm;2.5cm +
alternate +
mature +
slightly shorter +
basal +
globose +
mostly shorter +
pubescent +
1-carpellate +
compound +
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club +
1895 +
cup-shaped +
Endemic +
introrse +
absent +
sagittate +
staminodial +
subsessile +
obscured +
Persea humilis +
Persea +
species +
sepaloid +
yellowish +
persistent +
outer +
pubescent +
equal +
tall +
evergreen +
aromatic +
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