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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Stillingia aquatica
|accepted_authority=Chapman
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. South. U.S.,
|place=405. 1860
|year=1860
}}
|common_names=Water toothleaf;corkwood
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Stillingia;Stillingia aquatica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Euphorbiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Stillingia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Stillingia aquatica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 236
|treatment_page=page 234
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>with taproot. <b>Stems</b> solitary, erect, branching near apex, 4–12 dm. <b>Leaves</b> alternate; stipules linear, 1.5–2 mm; petiole 0.1–0.5(–1) cm; blade linear, lanceolate, or narrowly elliptic, 3.5–10 × (0.2–)0.5–2.5 cm, base acute to narrowly obtuse, margins minutely crenulate, teeth without prominent blackened tips, not incurved, apex acute to acuminate; midvein prominent, secondary veins ± obscure. <b>Inflorescences</b> sessile, 3–5 cm; staminate cymules ± crowded, 5–15-flowered; pistillate flowers 1–2(–4), crowded; bracts narrowly ovate to oblong, 2 mm, apex acute, glands crateriform, short-stalked, 1–1.2 mm diam. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: calyx 1–1.3 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: sepals persistent, 3, well developed, ± orbiculate; styles connate 3/4 length, to 4 mm. <b>Capsules</b> globose, 4–5 × 6–7 mm, shallowly 3-lobed; lobes of gynobase 3–3.5 mm; columella absent or only short basal part persistent. <b>Seeds</b> gray, globose, 4.5 × 4 mm, rugulose; caruncle minute.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Feb–May; fruiting (Feb–)May–Oct.
|habitat=Floodplain swamps, wet pinelands, shallow standing water, pond edges, maritime interdunal swales, generally in moist soils.
|elevation=0–200 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;S.C.
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Stillingia aquatica
|author=
|authority=Chapman
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|phenology=Flowering Feb–May; fruiting (Feb–)May–Oct.
|habitat=Floodplain swamps, wet pinelands, shallow standing water, pond edges, maritime interdunal swales, generally in moist soils.
|elevation=0–200 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;S.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. South. U.S.,
|publication year=1860
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_139.xml
|genus=Stillingia
|species=Stillingia aquatica
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