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|accepted_name=Asimina tetramera
|accepted_authority=Small
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Torreya
|place=26: 56. 1926
|year=1926
}}
|common_names=Four-petaled pawpaw
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Pityothamnus tetramerus
|authority=(Small) Small
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Annonaceae;Asimina;Asimina tetramera
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Annonaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Asimina]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Asimina tetramera]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> 1-3 m. <b>Branches</b> 1-several from base, nearly erect to arching; new shoots red-brown to tan, distally minutely red-tomentose, glabrate. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 2-3 mm. <b>Leaf</b> blade spreading to upswept, oblong-oblanceolate to broadly spatulate, 5-10(-18) cm, leathery, base narrowly cuneate, margins slightly revolute, apex rounded to obtuse-angled; surfaces abaxially glabrate, adaxially glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> from axils of new shoots, solitary flowers; peduncle slender, 1-2 cm; bracteole 1, basal, lance-oblong, 5-7 mm, hairy. <b>Flowers</b> nodding to nearly erect, reddish, fetid; perianth (3-)4-merous; sepals elliptic or ovate, ca. 1 cm, abaxially sparsely rusty-hairy; outer petals ascending with spreading pale tips, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 2-2.5 cm, margins slightly revolute, surfaces abaxially glabrate; inner petals ovate-acute or short-acuminate, ca. 1/2 length of outer petals, fleshier than outer petals, base large, saccate, corrugate zone adaxially deep purple; pistils 3-11. <b>Berries</b> yellow-green, 5-9 cm. <b>Seeds</b> chestnut brown, 1-2 cm. <b>2n</b>=18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer, all year if disturbed.
|habitat=Sands of ancient coastal dunes and adjacent open-wooded hammocks, flatwoods
|elevation=0-50 m
|distribution=Fla.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p>Morphologically, <i>Asimina tetramera</i> is much like a tall <i>A. pygmaea</i> in characters of flower and leaf.</p>
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name=Asimina tetramera
|authority=Small
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Pityothamnus tetramerus
|basionyms=
|family=Annonaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer, all year if disturbed.
|habitat=Sands of ancient coastal dunes and adjacent open-wooded hammocks, flatwoods
|elevation=0-50 m
|distribution=Fla.
|reference=None
|publication title=Torreya
|publication year=1926
|special status=Conservation concern;Endemic;Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_273.xml
|genus=Asimina
|species=Asimina tetramera
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