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|accepted_name=Xylosma
|accepted_authority=G. Forster
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Ins. Austr.,
|place=72. 1786
|year=1786
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Salicaceae;Xylosma
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Salicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Xylosma]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek xylon, wood, and osme, odor, alluding to fragrant wood of some Pacific species
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 5, 8, 164
|treatment_page=page 163
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>[trees], often ± heterophyllous, not clonal; branching sympodial. <b>Stems</b> usually spinose, sometimes unarmed, spines simple and/or compound. <b>Leaves</b> usually persistent, sometimes ± deciduous (sometimes congested at apices of relatively short lateral branches); stipules absent; petiole not glandular. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, fasciculate [racemose], 1 or 2 per axil. <b>Pedicels</b> articulate. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 4–6 (± persistent, connate proximally, imbricate); disc lobed (lobes extrastaminal, ± confluent [distinct]); stamens [8–]16–24[–50+] (usually exserted); filaments distinct; ovary 2- or 3-carpellate; style indistinct [relatively short]; stigmas 2 or 3, expanded, obcompressed, ± lobed. <b>Fruits</b> baccate. <b>Seeds</b>: aril absent. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;se Asia;Pacific Islands.
|discussion=<p>Species 80–90 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The infrageneric taxonomy of New-World <i>Xylosma</i> is confused and perplexing. Relatively few characters vary significantly and they seem to do so independently, in a complex pattern of intergrading morphologies. Of species that have been recognized, relatively few are unequivocally distinct.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=kiger2001a
|text=Kiger, R. W. 2001. Xylosma. In: R. McVaugh and W. R. Anderson, eds. 1974+. Flora Novo-Galiciana: A Descriptive Account of the Vascular Plants of Western Mexico. 8+ vols. Ann Arbor. Vol. 3, pp. 328–334.
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|id=sleumer1980a
|text=Sleumer, H. 1980b. Xylosma. In: Organization for Flora Neotropica. 1968+. Flora Neotropica. 98+ nos. New York. No. 22, pp. 128–182.
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name=Xylosma
|author=Robert W. Kiger
|authority=G. Forster
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Salicaceae
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;se Asia;Pacific Islands.
|reference=kiger2001a;sleumer1980a
|publication title=Fl. Ins. Austr.,
|publication year=1786
|special status=
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|genus=Xylosma
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