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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Ardisia
|accepted_authority=Swartz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Prodr.,
|place=3, 48. 1788, name conserved ,
}}
|common_names=Marlberry
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Myrsinaceae;Ardisia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Myrsinaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Ardisia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek ardis, point of arrow or spear, alluding to anthers and/or corolla lobes
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 302, 303
|treatment_page=page 318
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism growth form;whole_organism texture;whole_organism pubescence;whole_organism pubescence;whole_organism growth form;whole_organism texture;whole_organism pubescence;whole_organism pubescence;whole_organism growth form"><b>Subshrubs,</b> shrubs, or trees, not succulent, hairy, glabrescent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="leaf duration;leaf arrangement;leaf architecture;leaf growth form"><b>Leaves </b>persistent, alternate (pseudoverticillate in A. japonica), monomorphic or dimorphic;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="petiole presence">petiole present [absent];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="blade shape;blade shape;blade shape;base shape;margin shape;margin shape;margin shape;margin shape;margin shape;margin prominence or shape;margin architecture;margin shape or vernation;apex shape;surface pubescence;scale pubescence;hair architecture;hair arrangement or shape;hair pubescence">blade lanceolate, elliptic, or oblanceolate to obovate, base acute to obovate, margins entire, crenate, or undulate, flat, subrevolute, or revolute, apex obtuse or acute to acuminate, surfaces glabrous and/or with lepidote scales, sessile or stipitate-stellate hairs, or glandular-villous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="inflorescence position;inflorescence position;inflorescence position;inflorescence position;subumbel architecture;subumbel length or size"><b>Inflorescences </b>terminal, subterminal, axillary, or lateral panicles, racemes, cymes, subumbels, or umbels, sessile (pedunculate in A. japonica), longer than petioles.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="pedicel presence"><b>Pedicels </b>present [absent].</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="sepal atypical quantity;sepal quantity;sepal coloration;calyx lobe shape;tube variability"><b>Flowers:</b> sepals 4–5 (–6), green, calyx lobes oblong-ovate to ovate, ± equaling tube;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="petal atypical quantity;petal quantity;corolla coloration;corolla shape;tube variability;apex shape">petals 4–5 (–6), corolla white to pink, cupuliform to campanulate, lobes ± equaling tube, apex acute to acuminate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="stamen atypical quantity;stamen atypical quantity;stamen quantity">stamens (4–) 5 (–6);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="filament fusion;filament fusion;tube prominence">filaments connate basally into inconspicuous tube, free from corolla-tube;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="stigma shape">stigma punctiform.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="fruit architecture;fruit shape;fruit shape;fruit architecture;fruit some measurement;fruit texture;fruit dehiscence"><b>Fruits </b>drupaceous, globose or subglobose (A. elliptica), sometimes longitudinally costate, 4–8 mm, fleshy (endocarp crusty or slightly bony), indehiscent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="remnant texture;placenta texture"><b>Seeds </b>1, white to black, globose, covered by membranous remnants of placenta.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="seed quantity;seed coloration;seed shape;x chromosome quantity">x = 6.</span><!--

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|distribution=Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Indian Ocean Islands (e);Indian Ocean Islands (se Madagascar);Pacific Islands;Australia
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Icacorea Aublet, name rejected</p><!--
--><p>Species ca. 400–500 (4 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Plants subshrubs, stoloniferous, 0.02-0.3(-0.4) m; leaf blade margins serrulate; inflores- cences 3-5-flowered.
|[[Ardisia japonica|Ardisia japonica]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Plants subshrubs, shrubs, or trees, not stoloniferous, 1-15.2 m; leaf blade margins crenulate, undulate, or entire; inflorescences 5-18+-flowered
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blade margins crenulate or undulate (bearing vascularized nodules).
|[[Ardisia crenata|Ardisia crenata]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blade margins entire (without vascularized nodules)
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Branchlets glabrous; inflorescences subumbels or umbels.
|[[Ardisia elliptica|Ardisia elliptica]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Branchlets sparsely to densely rufous-papillate, sometimes also with multicellular hairs; inflorescences panicles of racemes.
|[[Ardisia escallonioides|Ardisia escallonioides]]
|}
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name=Ardisia
|author=John J. Pipoly III;Jon M. Ricketson
|authority=Swartz
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Myrsinaceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Indian Ocean Islands (e);Indian Ocean Islands (se Madagascar);Pacific Islands;Australia
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Prodr.,
|publication year=
|special status=
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|genus=Ardisia
|apex shape=acute;acuminate
|base shape=acute;obovate
|blade shape=oblanceolate;obovate
|calyx lobe shape=oblong-ovate;ovate
|corolla coloration=white;pink
|corolla shape=cupuliform;campanulate
|filament fusion=free;connate
|fruit architecture=costate;drupaceous
|fruit dehiscence=indehiscent
|fruit shape=subglobose;globose
|fruit some measurement=4mm;8mm
|fruit texture=fleshy
|hair architecture=sessile
|hair arrangement or shape=stipitate-stellate
|hair pubescence=glandular-villous
|inflorescence position=axillary;axillary;subterminal;terminal
|leaf architecture=monomorphic
|leaf arrangement=alternate
|leaf duration=persistent
|leaf growth form=dimorphic
|margin architecture=subrevolute
|margin prominence or shape=flat
|margin shape=undulate;crenate;undulate;crenate;entire
|margin shape or vernation=revolute
|pedicel presence=absent
|petal atypical quantity=5;6
|petal quantity=4;5
|petiole presence=absent
|placenta texture=membranous
|remnant texture=membranous
|scale pubescence=lepidote
|seed coloration=white;black
|seed quantity=1
|seed shape=globose
|sepal atypical quantity=5;6
|sepal coloration=green
|sepal quantity=4;5
|stamen atypical quantity=5;6
|stamen quantity=5
|stigma shape=punctiform
|subumbel architecture=sessile
|subumbel length or size=longer
|surface pubescence=glabrous
|tube prominence=inconspicuous
|tube variability=equaling;equaling
|whole_organism growth form=tree;shrub;subshrub
|whole_organism pubescence=glabrescent;hairy;glabrescent;hairy
|whole_organism texture=not succulent;not succulent
|x chromosome quantity=6
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