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|accepted_name=Smilax pulverulenta
|accepted_authority=Michaux
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|place=2: 238. 1803
|year=1803
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Smilax herbacea var. pulverulenta
|authority=(Michaux) A. Gray
}}
|hierarchy=Smilacaceae;Smilax;Smilax pulverulenta
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Smilacaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Smilax]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Smilax pulverulenta]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 470
|treatment_page=page 476
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs.</b> Stems annual, climbing, branching, to 2.5 m, herbaceous, glabrous; prickles absent. <b>Leaves</b> evenly distributed; petiole ± equaling blade; tendrils numerous, long, functional; blade lustrous, dark green abaxially, narrowly to broadly ovate, 8–16 × 3.5–9 cm, often with minute, whitish pubescence abaxially mostly on veins, with transparent trichomes, base cordate, margins entire, convex, apex long-acuminate; leaves on branches with oblong, smaller blade. <b>Umbels</b> numerous, axillary to leaves, 10–35-flowered, globose; peduncle equaling or shorter than subtending leaf. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth greenish; tepals 3.5–5 mm; anthers shorter than filaments, ovules (1–)2 per locule; pedicel 0.5–2.2 cm. <b>Berries</b> black, subglobose, 8–10 mm, not glaucous. <b>2n</b> = 26.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Rich woods, thickets, usually in calcareous soils
|elevation=0–900 m
|distribution=Ark.;Del.;D.C.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Md.;Minn.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Pa.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p>The distribution of <i>Smilax pulverulenta</i> is disjunct. The eastern distribution is centered in the mid-Atlantic United States, while the western distribution is centered in the Ozark Plateau of Missouri.</p>
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name=Smilax pulverulenta
|author=
|authority=Michaux
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Smilax herbacea var. pulverulenta
|basionyms=
|family=Smilacaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Rich woods, thickets, usually in calcareous soils
|elevation=0–900 m
|distribution=Ark.;Del.;D.C.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Md.;Minn.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Pa.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication year=1803
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_994.xml
|genus=Smilax
|species=Smilax pulverulenta
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