Taxus floridana
Fl. South. U.S. 436. 1860.
Common names: Florida yew
EndemicConservation concern
Synonyms: Taxus baccata var. floridana (Nuttall ex Chapman) Pilger
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 2.
Shrubs or small trees to 6 (–10) m, dioecious, trunk to 3.8 dm diam. Bark purplish brown, thin, scaly. Branches stout, spreading. Leaves 1–2.6 (–2.9) cm × 1–2 (–2.2) mm, mostly slightly falcate, light green with 2 grayish bands abaxially, with cuticular papillae along stomatal bands, dark green adaxially, epidermal-cells as viewed in cross-section of leaf wider than tall or ± isodiametric. Seed ellipsoid, 5–6 mm.
Phenology: Seeds maturing in early fall.
Habitat: Moist, shaded ravines in hardwood forests
Elevation: 15–30 m
Discussion
Taxus floridana is a rare endemic along the Appalachicola River in Florida.
Of conservation concern.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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uniform +
open +
mucilaginous +
scarlet;orange-scarlet +
cup-shaped +
thick +
grayish +
broad +
purplish brown +
fissured +
thin +
decussate +
inconspicuous +
year-old +
spreading +
inconspicuous +
Florida yew +
Fla. +
isodiametric +
wider than tall +
developed +
2-ranked +
persisting +
pliable +
falcate +
not winged +
clustered +
yellowish +
maturing +
axillary +
globose +
spheric +
Fl. South. U.S. +
1860 +
absent +
fibrous;woody +
hard +
maturing +
axillary +
reduced +
not winged +
brown +
maturing +
erect +
ellipsoid +
peltate +
abaxial +
Taxus floridana +
Taxus +
species +
0dm;3.8dm +
alternate +
terete +
resinous +
evergreen +
aromatic +
dioecious +
small +