Entry for (Kunth) T. D. Pennington [family ]

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Page 1 of 3 Entry for Sideroxylon celastrinum (Kunth) T. D. Pennington [family SAPOTACEAE]

Herbarium Flora of (FNA) Collection Flora of North America Resource Type Reference Sources Entry from Flora of North America, Vol 8 Names Sideroxylon celastrinum (Kunth) T. D. Pennington [family SAPOTACEAE], in Organization for Flora Neotropica, Fl. Neotrop., 52: 123. 1990 ,Bumelia celastrina Kunth [family SAPOTACEAE], in A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. Gen. Sp., 7(fol.): 164; 7(qto.): 212. 1825;Bumelia angustifolia Nuttall [family SAPOTACEAE]Bumelia celastrina var. angustifolia (Nuttall) R. W. Long [family SAPOTACEAE] Common names Saffron plum; coma Treatment Author(s) Wayne J. Elisens; J. Matthew Jones Information Shrubs or trees, to 10 m. Stems armed, villous, glabrescent. Leaves deciduous; petiole 1–6.5 mm, glabrous; blade (dark green adaxially), broadly elliptic, obovate, oblanceolate, or spatulate, 6–38 × 3–23 mm, base attenuate to cuneate, margins plane, apex rounded to obtuse, surfaces glabrous, tertiary and smaller veins not prominent (inconspicuously reticulate), midrib flat, marginal vein present. Inflorescences 4–12-flowered. Pedicels 3–6 mm, glabrous. Flowers: calyx 1.8–3 mm diam.; sepals 5, 1.7–3 × 0.9–1.9 mm, glabrous; petals 5(–6), white to yellowish, median segment elliptic, 1.9–2.3 mm, lateral segments lanceolate, 1.3–2.3 mm; stamens 5(–6), 2.2–2.9 mm; staminodes lanceolate, 1.7–2.1 mm, minutely erose; anthers lanceolate, 0.7–1 mm; pistil 5-carpellate; ovary 5-locular, 0.9–1.3 mm, hirsute to strigose basally; style 2.2–2.8 mm. Berries purple to purplish black, ellipsoid, 8–12 mm, glabrous. Seeds 6–11 mm. Habitat Scrub thickets, coastal marshes and hammocks Phenology Flowering May–Nov Altitude range 0–100[–900] m Distribution USA Fla. Tex. Central America n South

Page 2 of 3 America. Discussion Sideroxylon celastrinum is widespread in the Neotropics. It differs from other North American species of the by its glabrous twigs, leaves, pedicels, and sepals, and its narrowly ellipsoid fruits. The fruits are edible (T. D. Pennington 1990).

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