FLOWERS DEVELOP ON GROWTH OF CURRENT YEAR

A. pygmaea (Bartr.) Dunal

A. tetramera Small

• a.Dwarf shrub, 20-30 cm tall.
• a.I'll shrub of 1-3 m.
• b.Sparse, reddish. b. Sparse, reddish.
• c.Obovate to cuncate, or oblanceolate, 4-7 cm long, coriaceous, ascending.
• c.Oblanceolate to elliptic, 5-10 cm long, coriaceaous.
• d.Axillary, 2.5-3 cm broad, outer petals 2-2.5 cm long.
• d.Axillary, outer petals 1.5-3 cm long.
• e.3-4 cm long, 3-10 gm, with about 30% seed:fruit ratio.
• e.5-9 cm long (weight and seed:fruit ratio are undetermined).
• f.Poor to insipid. f. Poor.
• g.Approx. 1 cm long, 0.2 gm, brown, shiny.
• g.1-2 cm long, (weight undetermined).
• h.Slash pine-palmetto flatwoods, old fields.
• h.Ancient coastal dunes.
• i.Sands.
• i.Sandy.

A. longifolia Kral

• a.Shrub, 1-1.5 m.
• b.Sparse, pale
• c.Linear-elliptic to linear-oblanceolate, 5-15 cm long, coriaceous, horizontal.
• d.Axillary, outer petals 3-8 cm long.
• e.4-10 cm long, 5-50 gm, with a 15-30% seed:fruit ratio.
• f.Poor.
• g.1-2 cm long, 4-9 gm, dark brown, shiny.
• h.Pine flatwoods, old fields, scrub.
• i.Sandy.

A. obovata (Willd.) Nash

• a.Shrub (rarely a small tree), 2-4 m tall.
• b.Red.
• c.Obovate to oblong, oblanceolate to ovate, 4-10 cm long, coriaceous, lustrous.
• d.Terminal, outer petals 6-10 cm long.
• e.5-9 cm long, 10-70 gm, with a 15-45% seed:fruit ratio.
• f.Poor to insipid.
• g.1-2 cm long, .4-1.5 gm, brown to castaneous.
• h.Dry sand ridges, dunes.
• i.Well-drained sands.

LEGEND: a=habit, b=indumentum, c-leaves, d=flowers, e=fruit, f=flavor, g=seeds, h=site, i=soil.

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