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|accepted_name=Sideroxylon thornei
|accepted_authority=(Cronquist) T. D. Pennington in Organization for Flora Neotropica
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in Organization for Flora Neotropica, Fl. Neotrop.
|place=52: 170. 1990 ,
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|common_names=Georgia bully;swamp buckthorn
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Bumelia thornei
|authority=Cronquist
|rank=species
|publication_title=Castanea
|publication_place=14: 103. 1949
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Sapotaceae;Sideroxylon;Sideroxylon thornei
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Sapotaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sideroxylon]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sideroxylon thornei]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 237, 238, 241, 244
|treatment_page=page 243
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, to 6 m. <b>Stems</b> armed, glabrate to villous, glabrescent. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous; petiole 2.5–7 mm, villous (hairs tawny); blade (dull to lustrous adaxially), elliptic to oblanceolate or ovate, 16–76 × 10–54 mm, base cuneate to attenuate, margins plane, apex usually rounded to obtuse, sometimes retuse, abaxial surface villous, especially along midrib (hairs tawny, sometimes reddish brown), venation visible, adaxial surface glabrous or glabrate, midrib flat, marginal vein absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> 3–8-flowered. <b>Pedicels</b> 4.5–8 mm, glabrous or glabrate. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx 2.1–2.7 mm diam.; sepals 5, 1.4–1.8 × 1.3–1.5 mm, glabrous or villous; petals 5, white, median segment ovate to obovate, 1.5–1.9 mm, lateral segments lanceolate, 1.5–1.8 mm; stamens 5, 1.1–1.3 mm; staminodes deltate to ovate, 1.9–2.5 mm, erose; anthers sagittate, 0.7–1.5 mm; pistil 5-carpellate; ovary 5-locular, 1–1.4 mm, hairy; style 0.8–1 mm. <b>Berries</b> purplish black, subglobose, 8–11 mm, glabrous or glabrate. <b>Seeds</b> 6.5–8 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Jul.
|habitat=Low flatwoods, stream margins, floodplains, hammocks, and wetlands, often bordering cypress ponds and swamps
|elevation=10-80 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p>A. Cronquist (1949) hypothesized that <i>Sideroxylon thornei</i> is a hybrid between <i>S. lanuginosum</i> and <i>S. reclinatum</i>, a view repeated by T. D. Pennington (1990). The distinctive stomatal rims and cuticular patterns of <i>S. thornei</i> indicated to L. C. Anderson (1996) that the species is not of hybrid origin. Collections obtained since its description demonstrated greater variation in leaf size and shape, and a larger number of populations in the area where Alabama, Florida, and Georgia converge.</p>
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name=Sideroxylon thornei
|authority=(Cronquist) T. D. Pennington in Organization for Flora Neotropica
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Bumelia thornei
|family=Sapotaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Jul.
|habitat=Low flatwoods, stream margins, floodplains, hammocks, and wetlands, often bordering cypress ponds and swamps
|elevation=10-80 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.
|reference=None
|publication title=in Organization for Flora Neotropica, Fl. Neotrop.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|genus=Sideroxylon
|species=Sideroxylon thornei
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