Comments
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Guapira discolor appears in the flora only along the southern coast of Florida and in the Florida Keys.
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Description
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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.
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Habitat
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Hammocks, pine-scrub; 0-100m.
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Synonym
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Pisonia discolor Sprengel, Syst. Veg. 2: 168. 1825; Guapira bracei (Britton) Little; G. floridana (Britton) Lundell; G. globosa (Small) Little; G. longifolia (Heimerl) Little
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