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|accepted_name=Malpighia glabra
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 425. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Wild crapemyrtle
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Malpighia punicifolia
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
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|name=M. semeruco
|authority=A. Jussieu
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Malpighiaceae;Malpighia;Malpighia glabra
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malpighiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Malpighia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Malpighia glabra]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 359
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or small trees, 1–6 m. <b>Leaf</b> blades narrowly to broadly elliptic or ovate, larger blades 3–10 × 1.5–5 cm, apex usually acuminate, occasionally acute, surfaces glabrous or bearing a few fine, straight, appressed hairs. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1.5–3(–3.5) cm, (3–)4–10(–12)-flowered. <b>Flowers</b>: petals pink or pink and white or lavender-pink; anthers glabrous; ovary glabrous; styles nearly straight, parallel or divergent distally, ± alike. <b>Drupes</b> 7–13 mm diam., spheroid. <b>2n</b> = 20 (Costa Rica).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Sep–Apr; fruiting Oct–May.
|habitat=Roadside thickets, sandy plains.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=Tex.;e;s Mexico;West Indies (Greater Antilles);Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Malpighia glabra</i>, native in southernmost Texas, is rarely cultivated as an ornamental shrub in Texas, but many of the plants sold under that name are actually M. emarginata. <i>Malpighia</i> emarginata resembles <i>M. glabra</i>, but its leaves are usually rounded or obtuse at the apex and often emarginate or apiculate, and some pairs of leaves are crowded in dense shoots with very short internodes, while others are separated by much longer internodes (versus all more or less evenly spaced in <i>M. glabra</i>).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Malpighia glabra
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Malpighia punicifolia;M. semeruco
|basionyms=
|family=Malpighiaceae
|phenology=Flowering Sep–Apr; fruiting Oct–May.
|habitat=Roadside thickets, sandy plains.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=Tex.;e;s Mexico;West Indies (Greater Antilles);Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/eaa6e58056e40c9ef614d8f47aea294977a1a5e9/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_65.xml
|genus=Malpighia
|species=Malpighia glabra
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