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|accepted_name=Sassafras
|accepted_authority=J. Presl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in F. Berchtold & J. S. Presl., Prir. Rostlin
|place=2: 30, 67. 1825
|year=1825
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Lauraceae;Sassafras
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Lauraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sassafras]]</div></div>
|etymology=Spanish sasafras
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> deciduous. <b>Bark</b> red-brown, aromatic, thick, furrowed on old trunks. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, aromatic. <b>Leaf</b> blade pinnately veined, lobed or unlobed, basal veins more strongly developed than distal ones, papery; surfaces abaxially glaucous, glabrous or slightly pubescent; domatia absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> appearing before or with young leaves, situated in axils of bracts surrounding terminal buds, racemes or racemose panicles, flowers subtended by 1 linear bract. <b>Flowers</b> unisexual, staminate and pistillate on different plants; tepals deciduous, yellowish, equal, pubescent. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: stamens 9, anthers 4-locular, 4-valved, introrse. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: staminodes absent or present; ovary ovoid. <b>Drupe</b> blue, ovoid, seated in shallow, single-rimmed cupule.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Asia.
|discussion=<p>Species 2 or 3 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Sassafras
|author=Henk van der Werff
|authority=J. Presl
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Lauraceae
|distribution=North America;Asia.
|reference=None
|publication title=in F. Berchtold & J. S. Presl., Prir. Rostlin
|publication year=1825
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|genus=Sassafras
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