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|accepted_name=Leitneria floridana
|accepted_authority=Chapman
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. South. U.S.,
|place=427. 1860
|year=1860
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Myrica floridana
|authority=(Chapman) A. W. Wood
}}
|hierarchy=Leitneriaceae;Leitneria;Leitneria floridana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Leitneriaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Leitneria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Leitneria floridana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
|mention_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or small trees, 1-4(-8) m, to 15 cm diam. at base. <b>Stems</b> unbranched or sparsely short-branched distally, slender, pubescent, becoming glabrous. <b>Bark</b> gray to dark reddish brown; lenticels numerous, gray. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 2-7 cm, densely pubescent, becoming ± glabrous. <b>Leaf</b> blade lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, 5-20 × 3.5-6 cm, leathery, base acute, margins narrowly revolute, apex acute to acuminate; surfaces silky-pubescent when young, becoming glabrous and glossy adaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b>: staminate catkins cylindric in bud, lax and outward curving at anthesis, 2-6 × 1-1.5 cm; pistillate stiffly erect, 1-3 × 1 cm. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: stamens (3-)10-12(-15); filaments short; anthers basifixed, broadly oblong, 4-sporangiate, 2-locular at anthesis, dehiscing longitudinally. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: sepals (3-)4(-8), irregularly inserted, unequal; ovary elliptic, ca. 2 mm, finely pubescent; style 4-5 mm; stigma exserted, often recurved or twisted, reddish. <b>Drupes</b> erect, green, becoming chestnut brown, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, often compressed on drying, 1-2.5 cm, glabrous, base and apex blunt, apex with conspicuous dark stylar scar, vascular bundles toughening the thin flesh; endocarp brown, bony, surface rough-reticulate. <b>Seeds</b> 1, compressed; seed coat membranous, hilum blackish, elongate; endosperm thin, starchy; embryo large, straight; cotyledons ovoid, slightly fleshy. <b>2n</b> = 32.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late winter–early spring; fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Open or forested swamps, wet thickets, roadside ditches, saw-grass-palmetto marshes, estuarine tidal shores
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Mo.;Tex.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p>Vegetative reproduction is predominant, forming large clones from adventitious buds on shallow roots. Large, old plants ("small trees") are apparently rare in the field. Florida plants begin growth about a month before Missouri plants (J. W. Day 1975). <i>Leitneria floridana</i> is successfully cultivated as far north as Chicago, Rochester, and Boston.</p><!--
--><p>The wood (sp. gr. 0.21) is lighter than cork (sp. gr. 0.24); it is used locally for fishnet floats or bottle stoppers.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Leitneria floridana
|author=
|authority=Chapman
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Myrica floridana
|basionyms=
|family=Leitneriaceae
|phenology=Flowering late winter–early spring; fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Open or forested swamps, wet thickets, roadside ditches, saw-grass-palmetto marshes, estuarine tidal shores
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Mo.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. South. U.S.,
|publication year=1860
|special status=Conservation concern;Endemic;Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Leitneria
|species=Leitneria floridana
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