Sageretia minutiflora (Michx.) C.Mohr

Smallflower mock buckthorn (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Rhamnaceae > Sageretia

Characteristics

Shrubs or vines, loosely to compactly branched. Branches often sprawling, trailing, or clambering into trees, villous-tomentose, sometimes with understory of minute, erect, glandular hairs. Leaves persistent or tardily deciduous, opposite to subopposite; blade ovate to elliptic-ovate or broadly oblong-ovate, 1.5–4(–6) × 1–2 cm, base rounded to truncate-rounded or very slightly subcordate, margins shallowly serrate, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces glabrous; veins prominently raised abaxially. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, primary axis 5–15 cm, lateral branches 4–8. Drupes purple, subglobose to obovoid, 5–9 mm; stones 3.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention deciduous
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-10

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Distribution

Sageretia minutiflora world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:225165-2
WFO ID wfo-0001130944
COL ID 78ZXD
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Synonyms

Sageretia minutiflora Rhamnus minutiflora Afarca parviflora