EcoFlora - Guapira discolor

Guapira discolor (Spreng.) Little
Family: Nyctaginaceae Beeftree [Guapira bracei (Britton) Little, more] W.D. Brush	FNA Resources John S. Clement in Flora of North America (vol. 4) 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. Flowering summer. Hammocks, pine-scrub; 0-100 m; Fla.; West Indies. Guapira discolor appears in the flora only along the southern coast of Florida and in the Florida Keys.
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