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|accepted_name=Myrica inodora
|accepted_authority=W. Bartram
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Travels Carolina,
|place=403. 1791
|year=1791
}}
|common_names=Odorless bayberry;odorless wax-myrtle;waxberry;candleberry;waxtree
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cerothamnus inodorus
|authority=(W. Bartram) Small
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Morella inodora
|authority=(W. Bartram) Small
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Myrica laureola
|authority=C. de Candolle
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Myrica obovata
|authority=C. de Candolle
}}
|hierarchy=Myricaceae;Myrica;Myrica inodora
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Myricaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Myrica]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Myrica inodora]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or small trees, evergreen, to 7 m. <b>Branchlets</b> reddish brown and gland-dotted when young, glands colorless to white. <b>Leaf</b> blade lacking odor when crushed, oblong-obovate to elliptic, 3.5-10.5(-11.8) × 1.4-3.7(-4.4) cm, leathery, base attenuate to cuneate, margins entire, rarely serrate distally, slightly revolute, apex acute to rounded; surfaces abaxially pale green, glabrous, sometimes with a few scattered hairs, adaxially dark green, shiny, glabrous, both surfaces gland-dotted, pitted; glands minute, colorless or white. <b>Inflorescences</b>: staminate 0.7-2.2 cm; pistillate 0.4-4(-5) cm. <b>Flowers</b> unisexual, staminate and pistillate on same plants. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: bract of flower shorter than staminal column, margins opaque, densely ciliate; stamens mostly 6-10, as few as 3 in more distal flowers. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: bracteoles persistent, 4, obscure in fruit, not accrescent or adnate to fruit wall, glabrous except for ciliate margins; ovary densely villous. <b>Fruits</b> globose-ellipsoid, 4-8 mm; fruit wall densely pubescent, obscured by enlarged, glandular protuberances and thin (usually) coat of white-gray wax.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late winter–early spring, fruiting mid summer.
|habitat=Coastal pineland swamps, swamp margins, bogs, pond edges, and stream banks
|elevation=0-10 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.
|tables=
|references=
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name=Myrica inodora
|author=
|authority=W. Bartram
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Cerothamnus inodorus;Morella inodora;Myrica laureola;Myrica obovata
|basionyms=
|family=Myricaceae
|phenology=Flowering late winter–early spring, fruiting mid summer.
|habitat=Coastal pineland swamps, swamp margins, bogs, pond edges, and stream banks
|elevation=0-10 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.
|reference=None
|publication title=Travels Carolina,
|publication year=1791
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_1168.xml
|genus=Myrica
|species=Myrica inodora
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