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Common name: Southern hackberry.
Voucher: Kostadinov 121, 132, (URV) Brief description: A medium-sized to large monoecious or polygamous tree. Leaves are yellowish-green, lanceolate, oblique at base, simple, alternate, entire, pinnately veined, glabrous or nearly so, margins entire to broadly serrate-toothed. Flowers are unisexual, the staminate in small clusters near the base of the twigs of the season, the pistillate -- solitary or paired from upper axils of the same twigs. Fruits are a dark orange-red drupe. Campus data: Occasionally in the wild on campus, as medium-sized trees.
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