Guapira discolor
Phytologia 17: 368. 1968.
Common names: Pigeon-wood beef-wood pork-wood beef-tree blolly
Basionym: Pisonia discolor Sprengel
Synonyms: Guapira bracei (Britton) LittleGuapira floridana (Britton) LundellGuapira globosa (Small) LittleGuapira 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.
Habitat: Hammocks, pine-scrub
Elevation: 0-100 m
Distribution
Fla., West Indies.
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.