View source for Coccoloba uvifera

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|accepted_name=Coccoloba uvifera
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syst. Nat. ed.
|place=10, 2: 1007. 1759
|year=1759
}}
|common_names=Shore-grape;uva de playa
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Polygonum uvifera
|authority=Linnaeus
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae;Coccoloba;Coccoloba uvifera
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygonaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Coccoloba]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Coccoloba uvifera]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 483
|treatment_page=page 484
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>with branches spreading or sprawling, 2–7(–15) m. <b>Stems</b>: bark gray, peeling off in small white, gray, or brown flakes, inner bark light brown; twigs green and puberulent when young, gray at maturity, glabrous or pubescent. <b>Leaves</b>: those of adventitious or juvenile shoots often much larger and of different shape from those of normal shoots; ocrea persistent proximally, deciduous distally, brown or reddish brown, cylindric to funnelform, 3–8 mm, coriaceous proximally, membranous distally, margins oblique, glabrous or densely puberulent; petiole 5–15 mm, puberulent to pilose; blade pale green abaxially, green to bluish green adaxially, round to transversely elliptic, (6–)10–20(–27) × 6–20(–27) cm, length equaling or less than width, coriaceous, base cordate, margins sometimes revolute, apex rounded to blunt or emarginate, abaxial surface dull, adaxial surface shiny or dull, minutely punctate, glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> 10–30 cm, puberulent or glabrous, pistillate pendent in fruit; peduncle 1–5 cm, glabrous. <b>Pedicels</b> 1–4 mm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b>: tepals round to broadly elliptic, margins entire, apex obtuse. <b>Staminate</b> flowers 1–7 per ocreate fascicle. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: tube obpyriform, 12–20 × 8–12 mm, becoming fleshy. <b>Achenes</b> 8–11 × 8–10 mm, shiny. <b>2n</b> = 132.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Sandy or rocky coastal hummocks, sand dunes. 0-10 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Coccoloba uvifera</i> is an early colonizer of exposed, sandy shorelines. The wood has a specific gravity of 0.7, and a red sap obtained by cutting the bark has been used in commerce for tanning and dyeing (E. L. Little Jr. et al. 1969).</p><!--
--><p>Pistillate inflorescences of some specimens of <i>Coccoloba uvifera</i> appear to bear clusters of up to five flowers at each node; all but one abort, leaving a single flower that produces a fruit. The pedicels of the abortive flowers usually are more slender than those of the fertile flowers.</p>
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name=Coccoloba uvifera
|author=
|authority=(Linnaeus) Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Polygonum uvifera
|family=Polygonaceae
|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Sandy or rocky coastal hummocks, sand dunes. 0-10 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syst. Nat. ed.
|publication year=1759
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_1010.xml
|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae
|genus=Coccoloba
|species=Coccoloba uvifera
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