15 November 2023.
Horry County, South Carolina, United States
Locality: Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge: U.S. Highway 701, Yauhannah Landing on the east side of the Great Pee Dee River. Plants growing in low woods on the north side of the landing.
Coordinates: 33.6621, -79.1531
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Elevation: 2m.
Georeference protocol: Lat/lon determined by GPS
Habitat: Wild Habitat
Environment description: Plants growing in shade to part-shade of a moist to wet woodland habitat that is mostly deciduous and evergreen. Portions of the woodland have depressions with year-round standing water. Slope: N/A. Aspect: N/A. The underlying geology of this area is of Quaternary origin and characterized as Alluvial Valley Swamp. This formation is unconformable on all underlying units. It is composed of fluvial sand and gravel at base, grading upwards into fine sands and silts, and local occasional peat. May be overrun with recent sediments from forest cutting and agriculture. (Source: USGS South Carolina Geologic Map Data.) The primary soil type in this collection area is classified as Johnston Series loam. The Johnson Series consists of very deep, very poorly drained coarse-loamy, siliceous, active, acid, thermic Cumulic Humaquepts. The upper 0-75 cm is black, mucky loam that is friable and very strongly acid. The lower stratum to 1.75 m is dark gray, loamy fine sand, single grained, loose and very strongly acid. (Source: NRCS Web Soil Survey.)
Number of plants sampled: 15
Associated species: Smilax sp.; Acer rubrum; Sabal minor; Rhapidophyllum hystrix; Carya illinoensis; Quercus laurifolia; Quercus michauxii; Chasmanthium latifolium; Ilex verticillata; Quercus phellos; Vitis rotundifolia [originally listed as Muscadinia rotundifolia]; Gelsemium sempervirens; Bignonia capreolata; Ilex opaca; Platanus occidentalis; Nekemias arborea [originally listed as Ampelopsis arborea]; Liquidambar styraciflua; Vitis sp.; Rubus sp.; Betula nigra; Carpinus caroliniana; Carex sp.; Gleditsia triacanthos; Morus sp.; Toxicodendron radicans; Crataegus sp.; Taxodium distichum; Clematis sp.; Salix sp.; Ulmus alata; Lyonia mariana; Vaccinium crassifolium; Vaccinium arboreum; Nyssa aquatica; Saccharum giganteum.
Comment: This species is a multi-stemmed, dioecious, deciduous tree, forming an upright, irregularly spreading-arching habit in maturity. At maturity the plants in this location are approximately 5-10 m tall x 3-5 m wide. Leaves are simple, alternate, ovate to narrowly obovate, glabrous, and green above, and pale beneath; size ranges from 3.0-7.5 cm long x 2.0–3.5 cm wide. Margins of leaves are shallowly toothed and often revolute. Fruits are berries on short stalks, 0.5-1.0 cm in diameter, reddish-orange to red in clusters ranging from a few to 10, ripening in the fall. Plants are abundant at this site. Seeds collected from 15 plants.
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