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|accepted_name=Asimina pygmaea
|accepted_authority=(W. Bartram) Dunal
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Monogr. Anonac.,
|place=84, plate 10. 1817
|year=1817
}}
|common_names=Gopher-berry;dwarf pawpaw
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Annona pygmaea
|authority=W. Bartram
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Asimina secundiflora
|authority=Shuttleworth ex Exell
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|name=Orchidocarpum pygmaeum
|authority=(W. Bartram) Michaux
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|name=Pityothamnus pygmaeus
|authority=(W. Bartram) Small
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|name=Porcelia pygmaea
|authority=(W. Bartram) Persoon
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Uvaria pygmaea
|authority=(W. Bartram) Torrey & A. Gray
}}
|hierarchy=Annonaceae;Asimina;Asimina pygmaea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Annonaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Asimina]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Asimina pygmaea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> low, 2-3(-5) dm. <b>New</b> shoots 1-several, sparingly branched or unbranched, arching, red-brown with sparse, appressed, red hairs, glabrate. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 3-10mm. <b>Leaf</b> blade ascending along and above shoots, obovate or oblanceolate, rarely linear-elliptic, 4-7(-11) cm, leathery, base variously abruptly cuneate or narrowly rounded, margins revolute, apex rounded to obtuse or notched; surfaces abaxially and adaxially sparsely red-puberulent, glabrescent, abaxially pale, prominently reticulate. <b>Inflorescences</b> secund from axils of new shoot leaves, solitary flowers; peduncle slender, glabrate, 1.5-3(-4) cm; bracteoles 1-2, basal or 1 suprabasal, lance-oblong, less than 1cm, hairy. <b>Flowers</b> maroon, fetid, large; sepals ovate, 5-10 mm, glabrate; outer petals maroon or pink with maroon streaks, oblong to ovate-lanceolate, 1.5-3 cm, fleshy, margins revolute, apex spreading; inner petals erect, deep maroon, ovate-acute to lance-ovate, 1/3-2/3 length of outer petals, fleshier, base saccate, apex excurved, corrugate zone adaxially deep purple; pistils 2-5. <b>Berries</b> yellow-green, 3-4(-5) cm. <b>Seeds</b> shiny brown, ca. 1 cm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Sandy peat of pine-palmetto flats, savannas, low sandy fields, and low sand ridges
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.
|discussion=<p><i>Asimina pygmaea</i> hybridizes with <i>A. longifolia </i>var.<i> longifolia</i> and <i>A. reticulata</i>, with backcrosses introducing various heights, larger and variously paler flowers, and degrees of fragrance grading from fetid in the maroon types to progressively more fragrant in the larger-flowered swarm components.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Asimina pygmaea
|author=
|authority=(W. Bartram) Dunal
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Asimina secundiflora;Orchidocarpum pygmaeum;Pityothamnus pygmaeus;Porcelia pygmaea;Uvaria pygmaea
|basionyms=Annona pygmaea
|family=Annonaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Sandy peat of pine-palmetto flats, savannas, low sandy fields, and low sand ridges
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.
|reference=None
|publication title=Monogr. Anonac.,
|publication year=1817
|special status=Endemic;Selected by author to be illustrated
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_166.xml
|genus=Asimina
|species=Asimina pygmaea
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