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|accepted_name=Dirca decipiens
|accepted_authority=Floden
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas
|place=3: 494. 2009
|year=2009
}}
|common_names=Ozark leatherwood
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Thymelaeaceae;Dirca;Dirca decipiens
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Thymelaeaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Dirca]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Dirca decipiens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 381, 383
|treatment_page=page 382
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>to 3 m; branches turning gray, to gray-brown, sericeous. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 2–4 mm, sericeous; blade obovate to elliptic-oblong, 7.5–9 × 4.5–6 cm, base rounded, margins ciliate with 11–18 cilia per mm, apex round, abaxial surface sericeous, adaxial surface glabrous except on primary veins near petiole. <b>Inflorescences</b> fasciculate, deflexed, (2–)3(–6)-flowered; bracts obovate-oblong, finely white-tan tomentose, flowers sessile or subsessile. <b>Pedicels</b> 0–1 mm, sericeous. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx yellow-green to pale yellow, irregularly (3–)4-lobed, lobes 1–3 mm, margins erose; ovary with apical trichomes. <b>Drupes</b> yellow-green, ovoid to pyriform, 8–9 mm, with 10–17 apical trichomes.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring (Mar–Apr); fruiting late spring (May–Jun).
|habitat=Northeast- and northwest-facing bluffs above streams, calcareous bluffs
|elevation=100–500 m
|distribution=Ark.;Kans.;Mo.
|discussion=<p><i>Dirca decipiens</i> occurs typically in more xeric sites than <i>D. palustris</i> and is frequently associated with <i>Quercus</i> and <i>Juniperus</i>. It is currently known from only four populations.</p><!--
--><p>Flowers of <i>Dirca decipiens</i> appear about one week after those of nearby populations of <i>D. palustris</i>. The plants are relatively quick growing in cultivation and seed germination rates appear to be much higher than in other <i>Dirca</i> species. The leaves are parasitized, likely by Leucanthiza dircella Braun (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae).</p>
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name=Dirca decipiens
|authority=Floden
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Thymelaeaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring (Mar–Apr); fruiting late spring (May–Jun).
|habitat=Northeast- and northwest-facing bluffs above streams, calcareous bluffs
|elevation=100–500 m
|distribution=Ark.;Kans.;Mo.
|reference=None
|publication title=J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas
|publication year=2009
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_707.xml
|genus=Dirca
|species=Dirca decipiens
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