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Species: Persea borbonia
Collection Date: April 27, 1961
Bar Code ID: 000001506
UUID: ceb66e5e-4f98-406d-b605-cbefdcb672cf
Collectors: James D. Ray, Jr., C. E. Wood, C. E. Smith, R. J. Eaton
Collector's Identifier: 10794
Flower Buds Present?: True
Flowers Present?: True
Country: United States
State or Province: Florida
County or Parish: Volusia
Fips Code: 12127
Nearest Named Place: New Smyrna Beach
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Verbatim Directions to Locality: ca. nine miles south of New Smyrna Beach at Turtle Mound (ancient kitchen-midden); along Mosquito Lagoon; along narrow beach, base of mound.
Habitat: at Turtle Mound (ancient kitchen midden); heavily vegetated shell mound about 7 m. high, 100 m. long along Mosquito Lagoon. Woody overstory mostly of Celtis, Exothia paniculata, Xanthoxylum Fagara, Persea littoralis, Ardisia escallonioides, Rapanea guianensis, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, Plumbago scandens, Bumelia and Forestiera. Common along narrow beach, base of mound.
Plant Morphology Observations: flowers in (preanthesis) dianthesis.
Local Abundance Observations: common.
Notes: [map inset].
Type of Donor: Herbarium
Donor: University of South Florida Herbarium (USF)
Non digital information?: Y

Identification Records

Identifier's Name:
Text Identification Date: coll. 27 April 1961
Formal Identification Date: 1961-04-27
Lowest Rank Identified: first Infraspecific Epith
Identification History: Persea littoralis Small; coll. James D. Ray, Jr. et al.; coll. 27 April 1961
Identifier's Name:
Text Identification Date: 1971
Lowest Rank Identified: first Infraspecific Epith
Identification History: Persea borbonia (L.) Spreng. var. borbonia Kopp; ann. John R. Bozeman; 1971
Identifier's Name: B. Eugene Wofford
Text Identification Date: January 1974
Formal Identification Date: 0000-00-00
Lowest Rank Identified: first Infraspecific Epith
Identification History: Persea borbonia (L.) Spreng.; det. B. Eugene Wofford; January 1974

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