Guapira discolor

(Sprengel) Little

Phytologia 17: 368. 1968.

Common names: Pigeon-wood beef-wood pork-wood beef-tree blolly
Illustrated
Basionym: Pisonia discolor Sprengel Syst. Veg. 2: 168. 1825
Synonyms: Guapira bracei (Britton) Little Guapira floridana (Britton) Lundell Guapira globosa (Small) Little Guapira longifolia (Heimerl) Little
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Trees or shrubs, to 15 m. Stems and buds glabrate or sparsely reddish-pubescent. Leaf-blades broadly to narrowly elliptic, 6–13 × 1–3 cm, fleshy-chartaceous, thin and ± papery when dry, base cuneate, apex ± acute, surfaces glabrate. Inflorescences loose, 3–7 cm; buds and branches sparsely reddish-pubescent or glabrate. Flowers: staminate yellowish green; perianth widely funnelform, 3–4 mm, sparsely puberulent or glabrate; fruiting pedicel 2–3 mm. Fruits 5–8 × 2–3 mm upon drying.


Phenology: Flowering summer.
Habitat: Hammocks, pine-scrub
Elevation: 0-100 m

Discussion

Guapira discolor appears in the flora only along the southern coast of Florida and in the Florida Keys.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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... more about "Guapira discolor"
John S. Clement +
(Sprengel) Little +
glutinous +
cuneate +
unequal +
woody +, leathery +  and fleshy +
Pisonia discolor +
broadly lanceolate;obovate +
succulent +  and fleshy +
connate +  and distinct +
glabrate +  and reddish-pubescent +
glabrate +  and reddish-pubescent +
corollalike +  and petaloid +
Pigeon-wood +, beef-wood +, pork-wood +, beef-tree +  and blolly +
Fla. +  and West Indies +
0-100 m +
curved +  and straight +
yellowish green +
inconspicuous +  and showy +
1 +  and 80 +
chamogamous +  and unisexual +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
bright-orange-red +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
obovoid +  and globose +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
Hammocks, pine-scrub +
cymose +  and compound +
lateral +  and terminal +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br />) +
6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br /> (13 cm130 mm <br />0.13 m <br />) +
thin;1cm;3cm +
unequal +
not reflexed +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
sinuate +  and entire +
pistillate +  and staminate +
glabrate +  and puberulent +
tubular +, 5-toothed +  and narrowly campanulate +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
Flowering summer. +
thick +  and thin +
fibrous;fleshy +
membranaceous +
ribbed +, 10-ribbed +  and 5-ribbed +
pubescent +, glabrous +  and warty +
wrinkled +
Illustrated +
unarmed +  and branching +
reddish-pubescent +  and glabrate +
fusiform +  and linear +
filiform +
slender +
Guapira bracei +, Guapira floridana +, Guapira globosa +  and Guapira longifolia +
Guapira discolor +
species +
gland-tipped +
shrub +  and tree +