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|accepted_name=Byrsonima lucida
|accepted_authority=(Miller) de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Prodr.
|place=1: 580. 1824
|year=1824
}}
|common_names=Locustberry
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Malpighia lucida
|authority=Miller
|publication_title=Gard. Dict. ed.
|publication_place=8, Malpighia no. 9. 1768
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Byrsonima biflora
|authority=Grisebach
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=B. cuneata
|authority=(Turczaninow) P. Wilson
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=M. cuneata
|authority=Turczaninow
}}
|hierarchy=Malpighiaceae;Byrsonima;Byrsonima lucida
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malpighiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Byrsonima]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Byrsonima lucida]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 357
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, 1–6 m. <b>Leaves</b> often clustered at tips of shoots; blade obovate, larger blades 20–30 × 9–19(–24) mm, base cuneate or gradually narrowed, apex rounded or obtuse, surfaces very sparsely sericeous to soon glabrate. <b>Inflorescences</b> 2.5–5 cm, 6–10(–16)-flowered. <b>Pedicels</b> straight in bud, somewhat decurved in fruit. <b>Flowers</b>: anthers glabrous, locules rounded at apex, connectives equaling or exceeding locules to 0.3 mm; ovary glabrous. <b>Drupes</b> 8–12 mm diam. (dried), ovoid to spheroid with short apical beak when immature, glabrous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering most commonly Jan–Jun; fruiting Feb–Jul.
|habitat=Hammocks in dry rocky pinelands and sandy palm-pine woods.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies (Bahamas;Greater Antilles;Lesser Antilles;Virgin Islands).
|discussion=<p><i>Byrsonima lucida</i>, native in the flora area only to Miami-Dade and Monroe counties, is widely cultivated in peninsular Florida as an ornamental shrub; it probably has little or no tolerance for frost or temperatures below freezing.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Byrsonima lucida
|author=
|authority=(Miller) de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Byrsonima biflora;B. cuneata;M. cuneata
|basionyms=Malpighia lucida
|family=Malpighiaceae
|phenology=Flowering most commonly Jan–Jun; fruiting Feb–Jul.
|habitat=Hammocks in dry rocky pinelands and sandy palm-pine woods.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies (Bahamas;Greater Antilles;Lesser Antilles;Virgin Islands).
|reference=None
|publication title=Prodr.
|publication year=1824
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Byrsonima
|species=Byrsonima lucida
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