Flowers : staminate flowers, pedicels 9 to 20 mm long, hypanthium 7 to 12 mm long, 2 to 3.3 mm wide at rim, 1.8 to 3 mm wide at base, glabrous to pubescent outside, sepals 2.7 to 4.5 mm long, 1.6 to 2.6 mm wide at base, petals 2.2 to 4 mm long, 1.8 to 2.8 mm wide, nectary 1.6 to 1.9 mm high. pistillate flowers, pedicels 8 to 10 mm long, hypanthium 4.5 to 7.3 mm long, 1.5 to 2.5 mm wide at rim, 1.4 to 2.4 mm wide at base, sepals 2.4 to 3.6 mm long, 0.8 to 1.6 mm wide at base, petals 1.2 to 2 mm long, 0.7 to 1.2 mm wide, nectary 0.4 to 0.6 mm high, style 6.5 to 12.5 mm long, the stigma exserted 2 to 3.8 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, its lobes 0.7 to 1 mm long.
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Seed : 6-18 per berry, 2.1-3.4mm long x 1.1-2.7mm wide
Habit : shrub
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Height : 0.5-2 m
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Year (of first description) : 1840
Botanist : Steudel
Authors : Steudel 1840
Original publication : Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2, 1: 649 1840
Habitat : common in forests of pine, oak and arbutus from the Sierra Madre of southern Jalisco State south to central Oaxaca and from the Sierra Madre Oriental of southern San Luis Potosí south through Morelos and Puebla to the Sierra Juárez, Oaxaca
Elevation : 1800-2600
Native country : Mexico
Synonyms : F. acynifolia, Scheidweiler 1847. Encliandra parviflora, Zuccarini 1837, F. parviflora, Hemsley 1828
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : glabrous to puberulent on both surfaces, petiole 1 to 9 mm long
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Leaf dimensions : 9-27mm long x 4-17mm wide
Leaf shape : elliptic to narrowly ovate
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Leaf tip : acute to short acuminate
Leaf base : cuneate to attenuate
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Branches : branchlets 35 to 55 cm long, 0.5 to 3 mm thick, older branches 3 to 25 mm thick
