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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Jacquinia arborea
|accepted_authority=Vahl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Eclog. Amer.
|place=1: 26. 1797 ,
}}
|common_names=Braceletwood
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Jacquinia armillaris var. arborea
|authority=(Vahl) Grisebach
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Theophrastaceae;Jacquinia;Jacquinia arborea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Theophrastaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Jacquinia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Jacquinia arborea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 254
|treatment_page=page 253
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees to 5 m; twigs grayish brown, lepidote when young, glabrescent. <b>Stems</b> gray, nearly smooth. <b>Leaves</b> usually distinctly pseudoverticillate; petiole to 7 mm, glabrous or sparsely puberulous; blade 3–8(–12) × 1.5–4(–5) cm, coriaceous, margins slightly revolute, apex rounded or retuse, mucronate or mucro absent. <b>Racemes</b> 7–25(–40)-flowered, to 6(–12) cm, commonly exceeding leaves. <b>Pedicels</b> 7–13 mm; bracts lanceolate, 1–1.5 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 2.2–3.2 mm, margins entire or slightly erose; petals 7–9 mm, lobes ca. as long as or slightly shorter than tube; stamens shorter than staminodes; staminodes oblong to ovate, 1.8–3 × 2–3 mm, apex rounded or retuse. <b>Berries</b> orange-red or red, 7–11 mm diam., pericarp smooth. <b>Seeds</b> light brown, 3–5 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering winter–spring.
|habitat=Coastal strands, disturbed sites, mangrove forest edges
|elevation=0-10 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies (Jamaica;Lesser Antilles;Puerto Rico);Central America (Honduras).
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Cultivated and escaped in Florida, <i>Jacquinia arborea</i> is occasional in disurbed coastal communities of Broward and Miami-Dade counties and the Monroe County keys.</p>
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name=Jacquinia arborea
|authority=Vahl
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Jacquinia armillaris var. arborea
|basionyms=
|family=Theophrastaceae
|phenology=Flowering winter–spring.
|habitat=Coastal strands, disturbed sites, mangrove forest edges
|elevation=0-10 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies (Jamaica;Lesser Antilles;Puerto Rico);Central America (Honduras).
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Eclog. Amer.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|genus=Jacquinia
|species=Jacquinia arborea
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