Asimina reticulata
Asimina parviflora
flag-pawpaw, netted pawpaw
dwarf pawpaw, small-flower pawpaw, small-fruit pawpaw
spreading-ascending, slender;
new shoots red-brown, distally minutely reddish tomentose.
red-brown to tan, distally red or pale-hairy, becoming gray-brown, distally glabrous or sparsely pale-hairy.
blade oblong to elliptic or narrowly obovate, 5-8 cm, leathery, base abruptly and broadly cuneate or rounded, margins strongly to moderately revolute, apex acute to broadly rounded, occasionally notched;
surfaces abaxially densely orange-hairy, becoming sparsely so on veins, adaxially sparsely orange-hairy, becoming glabrous and often glaucous.
blade obovate to oblanceolate, 6-15(-20) cm, membranous, rarely leathery, base narrowly to broadly cuneate, margins barely revolute, apex acute to acuminate;
surfaces abaxially minutely rusty-tomentose, aging hairy on veins only, adaxially puberulent on veins, aging glabrous.
on previous year's growth;
peduncle slender, 2-3.5 cm, tomentose;
bracteoles 1-2, basal, usually ovate-triangular, rarely more than 2-3 mm, hairy.
from previous year's shoots before or during new leaf emergence;
peduncle 0.3-0.8 cm, tomentose, hairs red-brown to tan;
bracteoles 1(-2), basal, usually ovate-triangular, rarely over 2-3 mm, hairy.
1-3 per node, fragrant, large;
sepals triangular, 8-10 mm, abaxially orange-puberulent;
outer petals spreading, white or cream, narrowly oblong to obovate, 2.5-6 cm, abaxially puberulent on veins;
inner petals incurved, white, yellowish white, rarely pink or cherry red, mostly with deep maroon to purple corrugate zone, lance-hastate, 1/3-1/2 length of outer petals, fleshier, base saccate, margins revolute;
pistils 3-8.
maroon, rarely yellow, faintly fetid, 1-1.7 cm diam.;
sepals triangular-deltate, 4-7 mm, abaxially rusty-tomentose;
outer petals oblong to ovate, 1-1.
yellow-green, 4-7 cm.
greenish yellow, 3-6(-7) cm.
dark to pale brown, lustrous, 1-2 cm.
chestnut brown, 1-1.5(-2) cm.
, apex excurved, lingulate, surfaces abaxially minutely rusty-tomentose;
inner petals ovate, ca. 1/2 length of outer petals, base saccate, apex strongly recurved, veins adaxially incised, corrugate nectary zone indistinct or absent;
pistils 5-7.
=18.
=18.
Asimina reticulata
Asimina parviflora
Asimina reticulata hybridizes with A. incana and A. pygmaea. Hybrids with the latter frequently have cherry-red inner petals.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Asimina parviflora is primarily a miniature version of A. triloba in flower, shoot, and leaf; it reaches tree size only in the karst country of Florida. Peduncles at anthesis are often so short that flowers appear sessile. Pubescence is of a lighter red or brown than that of A. triloba. Putative hybrids between the two have been observed in northern Alabama.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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