01 August 2022.
Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States
Locality: Woodlands at the north end of the parking lot at Chumukla Springs Boat Ramp to the Escambia River.
Coordinates: 30.8308, -87.2976
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Elevation: 9m.
Habitat: Wild Habitat
Environment description: Growing as an understory element in high understory dappled shade under well-drained conditions in mixed deciduous and evergreen flatwoods, surrounded by drainage areas and nearby marshlands of the Escambia River. The underlying geology of this area is classified as Alluvium, of Pleistocene/Holocene origin and consists of undifferentiated Quaternary sediments of varying thickness including siliciclastics, organics and freshwater carbonates. The siliciclastics are light gray, tan, brown to black, unconsolidated to poorly consolidated, clean to clayey, silty, unfossiliferous, variably organic-bearing sands to blue green to olive green, poorly to moderately consolidated, sandy, silty clays. Organics occur as plant debris, roots, disseminated organic matrix and beds of peat. Freshwater carbonates, often referred to as marls in the literature, are scattered.
Number of plants sampled: 1
Associated species: Smilax pumila, Ditrysinia fruticosa, Vaccinium corymbosum, Magnolia grandiflora, Oxydendrum arboreum, Fagus grandifolia, Muscadinia rotundifolia, Hamamelis virginiana, Callicarpa americana, Chasmanthium sessiliflorum, Ilex opaca, Symplocos tinctoria, Hexastylis arifolia, Halesia carolina, Vaccinium elliottii, Halesia diptera, Persea borbonia, Sassafras albidum, Stewartia malacodendron, Erythrina herbacea, Amelanchier arborea, Smilax sp.
Comment: This plant is a multi-stemmed, deciduous upright, irregularly oval rounded shrub, approximately 4.5 meters tall. Leaves with multicellular stipitate-glandular- and unicellular-hairs on the petiole; the blade is ovate to obovate, 3-11 cm long × 1.5-4.5 cm wide with entire margins. Fruits are capsules borne on erect pedicels and approximately 14-26 cm long; they are sparsely to densely stipitate-glandular-hairy, especially on the pedicel and lower portion of the capsule.
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