View source for Sideroxylon celastrinum

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|accepted_name=Sideroxylon celastrinum
|accepted_authority=(Kunth) T. D. Pennington in Organization for Flora Neotropica
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in Organization for Flora Neotropica, Fl. Neotrop.
|place=52: 123. 1990,
}}
|common_names=Saffron plum;coma
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Bumelia celastrina
|authority=Kunth
|publication_title=in A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. Gen. Sp.
|publication_place=7(fol.): 164; 7(qto.): 212. 1825;
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Bumelia angustifolia
|authority=Nuttall
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Bumelia celastrina var. angustifolia
|authority=(Nuttall) R. W. Long
}}
|hierarchy=Sapotaceae;Sideroxylon;Sideroxylon celastrinum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Sapotaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sideroxylon]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sideroxylon celastrinum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 237, 239
|treatment_page=page 238
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, to 10 m. <b>Stems</b> armed, villous, glabrescent. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous; petiole 1–6.5 mm, glabrous; blade (dark green adaxially), broadly elliptic, obovate, oblanceolate, or spatulate, 6–38 × 3–23 mm, base attenuate to cuneate, margins plane, apex rounded to obtuse, surfaces glabrous, tertiary and smaller veins not prominent (inconspicuously reticulate), midrib flat, marginal vein present. <b>Inflorescences</b> 4–12-flowered. <b>Pedicels</b> 3–6 mm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx 1.8–3 mm diam.; sepals 5, 1.7–3 × 0.9–1.9 mm, glabrous; petals 5(–6), white to yellowish, median segment elliptic, 1.9–2.3 mm, lateral segments lanceolate, 1.3–2.3 mm; stamens 5(–6), 2.2–2.9 mm; staminodes lanceolate, 1.7–2.1 mm, minutely erose; anthers lanceolate, 0.7–1 mm; pistil 5-carpellate; ovary 5-locular, 0.9–1.3 mm, hirsute to strigose basally; style 2.2–2.8 mm. <b>Berries</b> purple to purplish black, ellipsoid, 8–12 mm, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> 6–11 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Nov.
|habitat=Scrub thickets, coastal marshes and hammocks
|elevation=0-100[-900] m
|distribution=Fla.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Sideroxylon celastrinum</i> is widespread in the Neotropics. It differs from other North American species of the genus by its glabrous twigs, leaves, pedicels, and sepals, and its narrowly ellipsoid fruits. The fruits are edible (T. D. Pennington 1990).</p>
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name=Sideroxylon celastrinum
|author=
|authority=(Kunth) T. D. Pennington in Organization for Flora Neotropica
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Bumelia angustifolia;Bumelia celastrina var. angustifolia
|basionyms=Bumelia celastrina
|family=Sapotaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Nov.
|habitat=Scrub thickets, coastal marshes and hammocks
|elevation=0-100[-900] m
|distribution=Fla.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=in Organization for Flora Neotropica, Fl. Neotrop.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|genus=Sideroxylon
|species=Sideroxylon celastrinum
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