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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Berchemia scandens
|accepted_authority=(Hill) K. Koch
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Dendrologie
|place=1: 602. 1869
|year=1869
}}
|common_names=Alabama supplejack;American rattan
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Rhamnus scandens
|authority=Hill
|publication_title=Hort. Kew.,
|publication_place=453, plate 20. 1768
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rhamnaceae;Berchemia;Berchemia scandens
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rhamnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Berchemia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Berchemia scandens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 60
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Vines,</b> usually climbing-scandent, twining to some extent, extending into crowns of trees. <b>Stems</b> to 10 cm diam., bark smooth, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> glabrate (petioles sometimes sparsely short-pubescent at base); blade ovate to elliptic-ovate or elliptic, 3–6(–8) cm, base truncate to rounded or obtuse, margins entire or shallowly undulate-crenate (teeth at vein endings), apex obtuse to short acuminate; secondary veins 8–12 pairs, strongly parallel. <b>Inflorescences</b> 7–20-flowered. <b>Drupes</b> mostly blue-black to purple-black or purple-red, cylindric to oblong-ellipsoid, 5–8 mm, often glaucous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–May.
|habitat=Riparian areas, ravines, swamps, bottomlands, upland forests.
|elevation=0–200 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Mexico (Chiapas);Central America (Guatemala).
|discussion=<p>According to R. K. Godfrey and J. W. Wooten (1981), the flowers of <i>Berchemia scandens</i> are functionally unisexual, the plants functionally dioecious. The staminodes remain enclosed by the petals in pistillate flowers.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Berchemia scandens
|author=
|authority=(Hill) K. Koch
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Rhamnus scandens
|family=Rhamnaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–May.
|habitat=Riparian areas, ravines, swamps, bottomlands, upland forests.
|elevation=0–200 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Mexico (Chiapas);Central America (Guatemala).
|reference=None
|publication title=Dendrologie
|publication year=1869
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_638.xml
|genus=Berchemia
|species=Berchemia scandens
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