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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
 Sideroxylon reclinatum ssp. reclinatum   FAMILY Sapotaceae   Go to FSUS key

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sideroxylon reclinatum ssp. reclinatum   FAMILY Sapotaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Sideroxylon reclinatum ssp. reclinatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8 (2009)

Sideroxylon reclinatum ssp. reclinatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Sideroxylon reclinatum ssp. reclinatum

INCLUDED WITHIN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Bumelia reclinata

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Bumelia microcarpa

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Bumelia reclinata

 

COMMON NAME:
 Smooth Bumelia, Florida Bully

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
 Sideroxylon reclinatum ssp. reclinatum   FAMILY Sapotaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sideroxylon reclinatum ssp. reclinatum   FAMILY Sapotaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
 Sideroxylon reclinatum ssp. reclinatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8
 Sideroxylon reclinatum ssp. reclinatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
 Sideroxylon reclinatum ssp. reclinatum

INCLUDED WITHIN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
 Bumelia reclinata

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
 Bumelia microcarpa

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
 Bumelia reclinata

 

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4594

Shrub; Tree
Perennial

Habitat: floodplain forests and river margins, per Weakley's Flora

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

Uncommon in GA, rare in SC

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DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)

IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
May be armed with spinose twig tips, spinose spur shoots, and/or nodal spines

LEAVES:
Deciduous to tardily deciduous
Simple
Alternate or clustered on spur shoots

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed corolla
5 stamens & 5 staminodia, fused to corolla
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Purplish-black
Drupe-like berry

 

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