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Revision as of 13:32, 25 March 2019
Common names: Small-flowered Pawpaw; Small-fruited Pawpaw
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| Photo by the Atlas of Florida Plants Database | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class: | Magnoliopsida - Dicots |
| Order: | Magnoliales |
| Family: | Annonaceae |
| Genus: | Asimina |
| Species: | A. parviflora |
| Binomial name | |
| Asimina parviflora (Michx.) Dunal | |
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| Natural range of Asimina parviflora from USDA NRCS Plants Database. | |
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Taxonomic Notes
Synonyms: none
Varieties: none
Description
A. parviflora is a perennial shrub tree of the Annonaceae family native to the southeastern United States. [1] Alternately arranged leaves that are simple, obovate or oblanceolate to oblong, entire, pointed at the tip, length up to 8 inches long, and some hairs on veins of lower surface. Bisexual flowers that are solitary, located in axils of the leaf scars, maroon, and have a slightly bad odor. Fruit are berries that are greenish yellow, and up to 3 inches long.[2]
Distribution
A. parviflora is found in the southeastern United States, particularly in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. [1]
Ecology
Habitat
A. parviflora is a deciduous shrub found in the Coastal Plain in the southeastern United States. [3]
This species has been found on sparse loamy sands, moist sands, floodplains, woodland slope, and bottomland hardwood forests. [4]
A. parviflora has been observed in dry-mesic hardwood hammock on a bluff above the Kissimmee River in Highland County Fl. This specimen is on the edge of it's southeastern range. .[5]
Phenology
The A. parviflora flowers are the smallest in the Asimina genus with 4-6 maroon flowers per branch. The flowers are in bloom from February to May depending on the year. [3] It has been observed flowering in June as well.[6]
Seed dispersal
The A. parviflora is pollinated by insects including the greenbottle fly and nitidulid beetles.[3] This species is thought to be dispersed by consumption by vertebrates. [7]
Seed bank and germination
The fruit from A. parviflora requires an average of 3-4 months to mature and the number of seeds germinated is low compared to the initial population developed. [3]
Use by animals
A variety of flies are the most common visitor to the A. parviflora but they have not been traced to pollination, which is largely a result from beetles and the greenbottle fly.[3] It comprises 2-5% of diet for small mammals and terrestrial birds.[8]
Conservation and Management
Cultivation and restoration
Photo Gallery
References and notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 USDA Plant Database
- ↑ [[1]] Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Accessed: March 25, 2019
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 [Norman, E. M., et al. (1992). "Reproductive Biology of Asimina parviflora (Annonaceae)." Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 119(1): 1-6.]
- ↑ URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: June 2018. Collectors: Loran C. Anderson, Robert K. Godfrey, William Platt, M. Darst, H. Light, P. Isom, L. Peed. States and counties: Florida (Wakulla, Jefferson, Franklin, Leon, Lafayette), Georgia (Thomas)
- ↑ Observation by Edwin Bridgesr in Highlands County, Fl. on the kissimmee River, February 8, 2016, posted to Florida Flora and Ecosystematics Facebook Group February 8, 2016.
- ↑ Nelson, G. PanFlora: Plant data for the eastern United States with emphasis on the Southeastern Coastal Plains, Florida, and the Florida Panhandle. www.gilnelson.com/PanFlora/ Accessed: 25 MAR 2019
- ↑ Kirkman, L. Katherine. Unpublished database of seed dispersal mode of plants found in Coastal Plain longleaf pine-grasslands of the Jones Ecological Research Center, Georgia.
- ↑ Miller, J.H., and K.V. Miller. 1999. Forest plants of the southeast and their wildlife uses. Southern Weed Science Society.
