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|accepted_name=Prunus myrtifolia
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Urban
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Symb. Antill.
|place=5: 93. 1904
|year=1904
}}
|common_names=West Indies or myrtle laurel cherry
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Celastrus myrtifolius
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=1: 196. 1753
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lauro-cerasus myrtifolia
|authority=(Linnaeus) Britton
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae;Rosaceae tribe Amygdaleae;Prunus;Prunus myrtifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rosaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Rosaceae tribe Amygdaleae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Prunus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Prunus myrtifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 355
|treatment_page=page 361
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> not suckering, 60–120 dm, not thorny. <b>Twigs</b> with terminal end buds, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> persistent; petiole 8–16 mm, glabrous, eglandular; blade elliptic to broadly elliptic, 4–10 × 2–4.5(–6.5) cm, base cuneate, obtuse, or nearly rounded, margins undulate, entire, apex acute to acuminate, apicula obtuse, surfaces glabrous, abaxial glandular, glands 2, proximal, flat, circular to oval. <b>Inflorescences</b> 12–30-flowered, racemes; central axes (11–)20–50 mm, leafless at bases. <b>Pedicels</b> (2–)3–6 mm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> usually bisexual, proximal sometimes staminate, blooming before leaf emergence; hypanthium cupulate, 1.5–2.5 mm, glabrous externally; sepals spreading, semicircular, 0.5–0.8 mm, margins usually entire, occassionally with a glandular tooth, surfaces glabrous; petals white, obovate to suborbiculate, 1.5 mm; ovaries glabrous. <b>Drupes</b> purple-black, globose to ± ovoid, 8–12 mm, glabrous; mesocarps leathery; stones subglobose, not flattened.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Nov–Jan; fruiting Mar–Jun.
|habitat=Hammocks, pinelands
|elevation=0–10 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Prunus myrtifolia</i>, when compared with <i>P. caroliniana</i>, has flowers more widely spaced on longer rachises and pedicels, and flowers in the winter rather than the spring. The leaves of <i>P. myrtifolia</i> are broader on average, and their apices are blunt at the tip; the fruits are more rounded at the apices with smaller apicula.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Prunus myrtifolia
|authority=(Linnaeus) Urban
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Lauro-cerasus myrtifolia
|basionyms=Celastrus myrtifolius
|family=Rosaceae
|phenology=Flowering Nov–Jan; fruiting Mar–Jun.
|habitat=Hammocks, pinelands
|elevation=0–10 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Symb. Antill.
|publication year=1904
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V9/V9_583.xml
|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Amygdaleae
|genus=Prunus
|species=Prunus myrtifolia
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