Woody Plants New to Florida
Dick Wunderlin, Bruce Hansen, Alan Franck, Keith Bradley, and John Kunzer’s 2010 paper in the Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (Plants New to Florida, JBRIT, 4(1):349–355) reported 34 species new to Florida, 26 of which were reported for the first time as occurring in the continental United States. Several trees, shrubs, or woody vines were included in their report, including 13 taxa that are either not included or not fully described in the second edition of Trees of Florida or in The Shrubs and Woody Vines of Florida. These taxa will be included and described in future editions of these publications, and will also be described here in future posts.
These taxa, their families, and their habits include:
Celastrus paniculatus Willd. (Celastraceae) [vine]
Cordia curassavica (Jacq.) Roem. & Schult. (Boraginaceae) [tree/shrub]
Cordia dichotoma Forst.f. (Boraginaceae) [tree]
Cydista aequinoctialis (L.) Miers (Bignoniaceae) [vine]
Radermachera sinica (Hance) Hemsl. (Bignoniaceae) [tree/shrub]
Trichosanthes cucumerina L. (Cucurbitaceae) [vine]
Pithecellobium bahamense Northr. (Fabaceae) [shrub]
Senna atomaria (L.) Irwin & Barneby (Fabaceae) [shrub/tree]
Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh. subsp. acuta Brooker & M.W. McDonald (Myrtaceae) [tree]
Pimenta dioica (L.) Merr. (Myrtaceae) [tree]
Triplaris melaenodendron (Bertol.) Standl. & Steyerm. (Polygonaceae) [tree]
Dimocarpus longan Lour. (Sapindaceae) [tree]
Solanum umbellatum Mill. (Solanaceae) [shrub]
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