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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Nyssa biflora
|accepted_authority=Walter
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Carol.,
|place=253. 1788
|year=1788
}}
|common_names=Swamp black or sour gum
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Nyssa sylvatica subsp. biflora
|authority=(Walter) A. E. Murray
|rank=subspecies
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=N. sylvatica var. biflora
|authority=(Walter) Sargent
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Nyssaceae;Nyssa;Nyssa biflora
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Nyssaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Nyssa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Nyssa biflora]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 459
|treatment_page=page 461
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> 10–30 m, base often buttressed in larger individuals, proximal limbs spreading to slightly drooping, crown irregular; bark irregularly fissured; twigs glabrous or puberulent. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 7–10 mm; blade oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, rarely ovate, 3.7–7.2 × 1.6–3.5 cm, subcoriaceous, base cuneate to rounded, margins usually entire, rarely coarsely dentate distally, apex obtuse to acute, abaxial surface glabrous or puberulent (primarily along veins), adaxial surface glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b>: peduncle 3.2–5.5 cm, sparsely hairy; staminate (1–)2–8-flowered, pistillate and bisexual 1–3-flowered. <b>Staminate</b> pedicels present. <b>Flowers</b>: ovary glabrous. <b>Drupes</b> usually black, sometimes to blue, glaucous, ovoid, 7–14 mm, smooth; stone 7–9 mm, with several low, rounded longitudinal ridges.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Swamps, flatwood depressions and ponds, bogs, wet streamheads, seepage slopes, often in sites with standing water during part of the year or with organic soils saturated year-round, less often in mesic forests.
|elevation=0–100(–200) m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Nyssa biflora
|authority=Walter
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Nyssa sylvatica subsp. biflora;N. sylvatica var. biflora
|basionyms=
|family=Nyssaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Swamps, flatwood depressions and ponds, bogs, wet streamheads, seepage slopes, often in sites with standing water during part of the year or with organic soils saturated year-round, less often in mesic forests.
|elevation=0–100(–200) m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Carol.,
|publication year=1788
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Nyssa
|species=Nyssa biflora
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