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|accepted_name=Drypetes lateriflora
|accepted_authority=(Swartz) Krug & Urban
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
|place=15: 357. 1892
|year=1892
}}
|common_names=Guiana-plum
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Schaefferia lateriflora
|authority=Swartz
|publication_title=Prodr.,
|publication_place=38. 1788
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Putranjivaceae;Drypetes;Drypetes lateriflora
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Putranjivaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Drypetes]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Drypetes lateriflora]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 369
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>to 10 m. <b>Bark</b> light brown, rough, separating into scales. <b>Buds</b> hairy, not resinous. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 0.3–1 cm; blade lanceolate to narrowly ovate-elliptic, 4–12 × 1.5–5 cm, thick-papery, base obtuse to acute, margins entire or minutely serrate, apex usually abruptly acute to acuminate; venation finely reticulate. <b>Staminate</b> inflorescences: flowers 8–25 per fascicle. <b>Pistillate</b> inflorescences: flowers 1–5 per fascicle. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: sepals 4(–5), ovate-elliptic, 1.5–2 mm, ciliate, otherwise sparsely hairy or glabrous; nectary deeply lobed; stamens 4(–5). <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: sepals like those of staminate flowers; nectary lobed; ovary 2-carpellate; styles 2; stigmas 2. <b>Drupes</b> red-orange at maturity, ovoid to subglobose, 10–13 × 8–11 mm; mesocarp 1–2 mm thick, fleshy; endocarp 0.5 mm thick, brittle. <b>Seeds</b> usually 1 per fruit, sometimes 1 per locule.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late winter–spring; fruiting spring–early summer.
|habitat=Tropical hammocks.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.;e Mexico;West Indies;Central America.
|discussion=<p>Fruits of <i>Drypetes lateriflora</i> apparently are removed by animals soon after they ripen; specimens with mature fruits are rarely collected. <i>Drypetes lateriflora</i> is more common on the Florida mainland than in the Keys.</p>
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name=Drypetes lateriflora
|author=
|authority=(Swartz) Krug & Urban
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Schaefferia lateriflora
|family=Putranjivaceae
|phenology=Flowering late winter–spring; fruiting spring–early summer.
|habitat=Tropical hammocks.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.;e Mexico;West Indies;Central America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
|publication year=1892
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Drypetes
|species=Drypetes lateriflora
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