Contains 3 accepted taxa overall.
Characteristics
Classification
Citation
SIDEROXYLON Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 192. 1753.
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TYPE: Sideroxylon inerme Linnaeus Lectotypified by Baillon, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris 1: 908. 1891.
Species
| Scientific Name | Common Name | Herbarium Specimens | Status | Photos |
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| Sideroxylon lanuginosum ssp. lanuginosum | Eastern Gum Bumelia, Eastern Gum Bully | |||
| Sideroxylon lycioides | Buckthorn Bumelia, Buckthorn Bully, Carolina Buckthorn | |||
| Sideroxylon reclinatum ssp. reclinatum | Smooth Bumelia, Florida Bully |
Identification Key
1. Petiole (9-)15-40(-50) mm long (shorter on immature plants); leaf blade mostly 7-20 cm long, the margin often undulate; corolla lobes light yellow, lacking lateral segments; mature fruit 10-30 mm long, yellow to orange; seeds 15-20 mm long
1. Petiole 1-11(-14) mm long; leaf blade mostly 0.5-13 cm long, the margin usually plane; corolla lobes mostly white, with 2 lateral segments; mature fruit purple, 3-13 mm long; seeds 3-12 mm long
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2. Mature stems lacking thorns and short shoots; leaf blades acute-acuminate towards the apex; inflorescence nodes often crowded with the inflorescences touching or overlapping or nearly so; ovary glabrous
2. Mature stems with thorns and/or short shoots, the short shoots sometimes with pseudowhorled leaves; leaf blades rounded to rounded-acute at the apex (or often acute-acuminate in S. lycioides); inflorescence nodes usually well-spaced with the inflorescences not touching or occasionally somewhat overlapping; ovary pubescent
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3. Stem and leaves glaucous; leaf blade midvein often indistinct near the tip and branching or sinuous, reticulate venation sometimes obscure, the upper surface often with fine pellucid spicules
3. Stem and leaves not glaucous; leaf blade midvein mostly straight and distinct to the tip, reticulate venation generally apparent (unless obscured by pubescence), the upper surface without spicules
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4. Leaf blade underside lustrous with dense pubescence, the green color of the blade surface not apparent
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4. Leaf blade underside generally not lustrous, glabrous to moderately pubescent, the green color of the blade surface generally apparent
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5. Young stems glabrate, the stem bark green to cream-white becoming light gray; mature leaf blade underside with appressed silvery white trichomes; pedicels 4-5 mm long; corolla tube 1-1.6 mm long, median lobe 1.2-1.6 mm long, lateral segments 1.5-2.1 mm long (from junction with adjacent lateral segment); filament 1.3-1.6 mm long
5. Young stems moderately to densely pubescent, the stem bark green to green-brown becoming dark brown, red-brown, purple, to purple-gray; mature leaf blade underside with red-brown to only slightly tawny to silvery white trichomes, some trichomes villous or ascending; pedicels 6-12 mm long; corolla tube 1.5-2 mm long, median lobe 1.4-2.2 mm long, lateral segments 2-2.5 mm long (from junction with adjacent lateral segment); filament 1.5-2.5 mm long
6. Leaf blades 1-3(-5) cm long
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6. Leaf blades (3-)5-12 cm long
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7. Mature shrub 1 m tall or less; young stems, petiole (often), pedicels, and sepals densely villous, strigose-villous, to strigose with red-brown hairs; fruit usually >1 cm long
7. Mature shrub or tree, taller than 1 m; young stems, petiole, pedicels, and sepals strigose to glabrate, occasionally sparsely villous, with whitish to tawny hairs; fruit usually <1 cm long
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8. Leaf blade lower surface usually persistently pubescent, sometimes glabrate, epidermal cell outlines marked by a distinct impressed groove, surface reticulate-ornamented; sepals and ovary usually densely strigose, sometimes glabrate
8. Leaf blade lower surface glabrate, pubescent only along the midvein, epidermal cell outlines indistinct often, surface mostly smooth and irregularly undulating; sepals and ovary glabrate
9. Young stems strigose to glabrate; leaf blade with the tip acute-acuminate (rarely rounded), the lower surface glabrous or glabrate (hairs scattered along midribs); pedicels glabrous
9. Young stems villous to glabrate; leaf blade with the tip rounded to bluntly acute (rarely acute-acuminate), the lower surface hairy
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10. Pedicels lanate or glabrous; inflorescence with (2-)6-25 flowers; pedicels villous to glabrate; sepals villous; stamens 2.5-2.8 mm long; styles 1-1.5 mm long
10. Pedicels glabrous or glabrate; inflorescence with 1-9 flowers; pedicels glabrate; sepals glabrous to villous; stamens 1-1.3 mm long; styles 0.8-1 mm long
Genus Synonyms
| Synonym | Full Citation | Basionym | Type |
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| No synonyms found. | |||