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Species: Myrica cerifera
Collection Date: September 10, 1956
Bar Code ID: 000002104
UUID: 540bf080-7a0e-4b22-bf6c-d5df25f8657b
Collectors: J. B. Hilmon
Collector's Identifier: SE-409
Fruit Present?: True
Country: United States
State or Province: Florida
County or Parish: Charlotte
Fips Code: 12015
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Special Geographical Unit: Caloosa Exp. Range
Verbatim Directions to Locality: SE So. Florida; Caloosa Exp. Rang; replacement pasture.
Altitude (in meters):8
Method of Altitude Determination: unknown
Township: 42N
Range: 26E
Section: 31
Habitat: density in tenths: [/rowse]; slope: 0; soil: fine sand; vegetation type: Saw-palmetto-wiregrass; principal associated plants: Aristida stricta, Serenoa repens; distribution: flat woods.
Plant Morphology Observations: usual size of plant: 1 ft.; perennial; fruiting period: September.
Local Abundance Observations: common.
Notes: 1874.
Type of Donor: Herbarium
Donor: Forest Service Herbarium U.S. Department of Agriculture
Non digital information?: N

Identification Records

Identifier's Name: J. B. Hilmon
Formal Identification Date: 1956-09-10
Lowest Rank Identified: Species
Identification History: Myrica pusilla Raf.
Identifier's Name: J. Rex Baird
Text Identification Date: 1968
Lowest Rank Identified: Species
Identification History: Morella cerifera (L.) Small (Syn. Myrica Cerifera L. -- Fernald, -- Gleason / Cerothamnus ceriferus (L.) Small -- Small)
Identifier's Name: Barney L. Lipscomb
Text Identification Date: 1985
Lowest Rank Identified: Species
Identification History: Myrica cerifera L.
Identifier's Name: R. L. Wilbur
Text Identification Date: 1993
Lowest Rank Identified: Species
Identification History: Morella cerifera (L.) Small

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