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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Ardisia
|accepted_authority=Swartz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Prodr.,
|place=3, 48. 1788, name conserved ,
}}
|common_names=Marlberry
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Myrsinaceae;Ardisia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Myrsinaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Ardisia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek ardis, point of arrow or spear, alluding to anthers and/or corolla lobes
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 302, 303
|treatment_page=page 318
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs,</b> shrubs, or trees, not succulent, hairy, glabrescent. <b>Leaves</b> persistent, alternate (pseudoverticillate in <i>A. japonica</i>), monomorphic or dimorphic; petiole present [absent]; blade lanceolate, elliptic, or oblanceolate to obovate, base acute to obovate, margins entire, crenate, or undulate, flat, subrevolute, or revolute, apex obtuse or acute to acuminate, surfaces glabrous and/or with lepidote scales, sessile- or stipitate-stellate hairs, or glandular-villous. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, subterminal, axillary, or lateral panicles, racemes, cymes, subumbels, or umbels, sessile (pedunculate in <i>A. japonica</i>), longer than petioles. <b>Pedicels</b> present [absent]. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 4–5(–6), green, calyx lobes oblong-ovate to ovate, ± equaling tube; petals 4–5(–6), corolla white to pink, cupuliform to campanulate, lobes ± equaling tube, apex acute to acuminate; stamens (4–)5(–6); filaments connate basally into inconspicuous tube, free from corolla tube; stigma punctiform. <b>Fruits</b> drupaceous, globose or subglobose (<i>A. elliptica</i>), sometimes longitudinally costate, 4–8 mm, fleshy (endocarp crusty or slightly bony), indehiscent. <b>Seeds</b> 1, white to black, globose, covered by membranous remnants of placenta. <b>x</b> = 6.</span><!--

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|distribution=Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Indian Ocean Islands (e;se Madagascar);Pacific Islands;Australia.
|discussion=<p>Icacorea Aublet, name rejected</p><!--
--><p>Species ca. 400–500 (4 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=ricketson2003a
|text=Ricketson, J. M. and J. J. Pipoly. 2003. Revision of Ardisia subgenus Auriculardisia (Myrsinaceae). Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 90: 179–317.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Plants subshrubs, stoloniferous, 0.02-0.3(-0.4) m; leaf blade margins serrulate; inflores- cences 3-5-flowered.
|[[Ardisia japonica|Ardisia japonica]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Plants subshrubs, shrubs, or trees, not stoloniferous, 1-15.2 m; leaf blade margins crenulate, undulate, or entire; inflorescences 5-18+-flowered
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blade margins crenulate or undulate (bearing vascularized nodules).
|[[Ardisia crenata|Ardisia crenata]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blade margins entire (without vascularized nodules)
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Branchlets glabrous; inflorescences subumbels or umbels.
|[[Ardisia elliptica|Ardisia elliptica]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Branchlets sparsely to densely rufous-papillate, sometimes also with multicellular hairs; inflorescences panicles of racemes.
|[[Ardisia escallonioides|Ardisia escallonioides]]
|}
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name=Ardisia
|author=John J. Pipoly III;Jon M. Ricketson
|authority=Swartz
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Myrsinaceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Indian Ocean Islands (e;se Madagascar);Pacific Islands;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=ricketson2003a
|publication title=Prodr.,
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_637.xml
|genus=Ardisia
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