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Ardisia escallonioides
Schltdl. & Cham.
Family:
Primulaceae
Island Marl-Berry
[
Ardisia escallonoides
Schiede & Deppe ex Schltdl. & Cham.,
more
Cyrilla paniculata
Nutt.,
Pickeringia paniculata
(Nutt.) Nutt.
]
FNA
Resources
John J. Pipoly III, Jon M. Ricketson in Flora of North America (vol. 8)
Subshrubs or trees,
not stolon-iferous, 11-15.2 m; branchlets sparsely to densely rufous-papillate, sometimes also with multicellular hairs.
Leaves:
petiole 5-12 mm, glabrous; blade elliptic to oblanceolate, 3.2-17.5 × 1.3-6.2 cm, margins entire, flat, (without vascularized nodules), apex acute, surfaces glabrous.
Inflorescences
terminal, panicles of racemes, 6-18-flowered.
Pedicels
erect, 0.4-0.6 cm, sparsely to densely rufous-papillate.
Flowers:
sepals 5-6, ovate, 1.8-2 mm, margins entire, (glandular-ciliolate), apex acute, minutely papillate; petals 5-6, white to pink, lanceolate, 6.7-6.9 mm, margins entire, (hyaline, membranous), apex acute, punctate, with dense, yellow papillae adaxially at base, glabrous; stamens shorter than petals; anthers ovate to lanceolate, apex apiculate, punctate abaxially; ovary pellucid-punctate, glabrous; ovules 39-44, multiseriate.
Drupes
red, becoming black, 4-7 mm diam., punctate.
Flowering May-Jun; fruiting Nov-May. Hammocks; 0-30 m; introduced; Fla.; Mexico; West Indies (Barbados, Bermuda, Cuba, Dominican Republic); Central America (Belize, Guatemala).
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