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|accepted_name=Smilax laurifolia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 1030. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Bamboo vine;blaspheme vine;laurel greenbrier
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Smilax alba
|authority=Pursh
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Smilax lanceolata
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Smilacaceae;Smilax;Smilax laurifolia
|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 laurifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 470
|treatment_page=page 475
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Vines </b>forming extensive colonies; rhizomes irregularly branched, tuberous, woody. <b>Stems</b> perennial, climbing, branching, terete, 5+ m × 15 mm, woody, glaucous, glabrous; prickles dark, flat, to 12 mm, rigid. <b>Leaves</b> evergreen, ± evenly arranged; petiole 0.5–1.5 cm; blade abaxially green, drying to pale brown to brownish green, oblong-elliptic, lance-elliptic, or, sometimes, linear or broadly ovate, not prominently reticulate, 3-veined from base, 7–13 × 1.3–4(–6) cm, coriaceous, not glaucous, glabrous or minutely pubescent abaxially, base attenuate to rounded; margins entire, often revolute, teeth absent; apex acute to rounded, often mucronate. <b>Umbels</b> numerous, axillary to leaves, generally on short branches, 5–12(–25)-flowered, ± open, spherical; peduncle 0.5–1.5 cm, shorter than subtending leaf. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth yellow, cream, or white; tepals 4–5 mm; anthers exceeding filaments; ovule 1 per locule; pedicel 0.5-1 cm. <b>Berries</b> black, ovoid, 5–8 mm, shining, glaucous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Bays, bogs, pocosins, swamp margins, marshy banks
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;West Indies (Bahamas;Cuba).
|discussion=<p>The stems of <i>Smilax laurifolia</i> are viciously armed.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Smilax laurifolia
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Smilax alba;Smilax lanceolata
|basionyms=
|family=Smilacaceae
|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Bays, bogs, pocosins, swamp margins, marshy banks
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;West Indies (Bahamas;Cuba).
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_992.xml
|genus=Smilax
|species=Smilax laurifolia
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