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|accepted_name=Litsea aestivalis
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Fernald
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=47: 140. 1945
|year=1945
}}
|common_names=Pond-spice
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Laurus aestivalis
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=1: 370. 1753
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Glabraria geniculata
|authority=(Walter) Britton
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Litsea geniculata
|authority=(Walter) G. Nicholson
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Lauraceae;Litsea;Litsea aestivalis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Lauraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Litsea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Litsea aestivalis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> to 3 m. <b>Branches</b> glabrous or sparsely pubescent, with typical zigzag shape. <b>Leaf</b> blade lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 1.5-4 × 0.4-1.5 cm, mostly glabrous; surfaces abaxially frequently with spreading hairs along base of midrib. <b>Inflorescences</b> in axils of deciduous bracts, flowers in 4-5-flowered pseudoumbels. <b>Flowers</b>: ca. 6 mm diam., from exposed overwintering buds; tepals yellow. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: stamens 9; pistillode absent. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: staminodes 9; style slender; stigma capitate. <b>Drupe</b> red, ca. 10 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late winter–spring.
|habitat=Within basins of limesinks or other depressional ponds or Carolina bays
|elevation=10-200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Litsea aestivalis</i> is mostly an outer coastal plain species, although we do have a substantial number of coastal plain records for the extreme southern Appalachians.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Litsea aestivalis
|authority=(Linnaeus) Fernald
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Glabraria geniculata;Litsea geniculata
|basionyms=Laurus aestivalis
|family=Lauraceae
|phenology=Flowering late winter–spring.
|habitat=Within basins of limesinks or other depressional ponds or Carolina bays
|elevation=10-200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1945
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_1142.xml
|genus=Litsea
|species=Litsea aestivalis
}}<!--

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