Flowers : staminate flowers, pedicels spreading to drooping, pubescent, 4 to 7 mm long, hypanthium obconic, 4.8 to 7.7 mm long, 1.8 to 2.6 mm wide at rim, 0.9 to 1.6 mm wide at base, pubescent outside, villous pubescent on the lower third inside, sepals lanceolate, 2.4 to 3.2 mm long, 1.2 to 1.8 mm wide at base, reflexed, the apex acuminate to cuspidate, the tips connivent in bud, hypanthium and sepals greenish-white to white, petals white, elliptic to rotund, 2.1 to 2.8 mm long, 1.9 to 2.5 mm wide, glabrous to sparsely puberulent, spreading, apex rounded, nectary a deeply four-lobed swollen disc, 0.5 to 0.8 mm high, episepalous stamens exserted 0.9 to 1.3 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, filaments equal, 0.7 to 1 mm long, anthers 1.2 to 1.5 mm long, 0.4 to 0.6 mm thick, style filiforma, 2.4 to 4.6 mm long, stigma usually undeveloped, ovary undeveloped. pistillate flowers, similar to the staminate in all except the following: pedicels 3 to 5 mm long, hypanthium subcylindric to obconic, 1.8 to 3.8 mm long, 1 to 1.5 mm wide at rim, 0.8 to 1.2 mm wide at base, sepals 0.9 to 1.6 mm long, 0.6 to 0.8 mm wide at base, petals 0.6 to 1 mm long, 0.3 to 0.6 mm wide, nectary 0.4 to 0.6 mm high, style 3.5 to 6 mm long, the stigma exserted 1.6 to 3.3 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, its lobes broadly lanceolate, suberect, 0.9 to 1.3 mm long
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Seed : 12-16 per berry, 2.1-2.6mm long x 0.9-1.1mm wide, oblanceolate to elliptic in outline, hilum subbasal
Habit : erect shrub
Hardiness:
Height : 1-3 m
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Remarks : dioecious
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Year (of first description) : 1969
Botanist : Breedlove
Authors : Breedlove 1969
Original publication : Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 53: 54 1969
Habitat : abundant in forests of pine and oak in scattered localities on the lower mountains of the Trans-Mexican
Elevation : 1700-2400
Native country : Mexico
Synonyms :
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : opposite to subopposite, chartaecous to subcoriaceous, glabrous to sparsely puberulent on the upper surface, pubescent on the margin and veins below, petiole pubescent, 3 to 29 mm long
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Leaf dimensions : 11-63mm long x 6-24mm wide
Leaf shape : lanceolate or oblanceolate to broadly elliptic
Leaf margin : serrate
Leaf tip : acute
Leaf base : obtuse to cuneate
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Branches : branchlets ascending, vigorous, 20 to 60 cm long, 0.5 to 3 mm thick, quadrangular in transection, sparsely to densely canescent, older branches 15 to 35 mm thick
