Eubotrys racemosa
Eubotrys
coastal fetterbush, deciduous swamp fetterbush, swamp deciduous dog-laurel, swamp dog-hobble, swamp sweetbells
dog-laurel, doghobble, fetterbush, hobblebush
erect, (0.3–)1–4 m, branches spreading.
erect;
branches spreading, without silvery scales (sometimes hairy).
petiole 1–3 mm;
blade 3–8 cm, surfaces pilose on major veins abaxially.
deciduous;
blade (not glaucous), oblong to oblanceolate or obovate, membranous, margins spinulose-serrulate, plane, surfaces glabrous, often unicellular-hairy on major veins abaxially;
venation reticulodromous.
(deciduous around anthesis), erect or ascending, secund, straight, 3–5 cm;
bracts ± deciduous, lanceolate, 4–5 mm.
axillary, fascicled or solitary racemes, 8–25-flowered, (produced on previous year’s wood); (bracteoles 2, distal).
calyx campanulate, sepals lanceolate, 2–3 mm, apex acute;
corolla white, 7–9 mm, lobes recurved, glabrous;
stamens 2–4 mm;
anthers 4-awned, ca. 1.5 mm, thecae divergent distally;
ovary glabrous.
sepals 5, connate basally, lanceolate or ovate;
petals 5, connate basally nearly their entire lengths, white to pale pink, corolla cylindric, lobes much shorter than tube;
stamens 8(–10), included;
filaments ± straight, flattened, glabrous, without spurs;
anthers with 2 or 4 awns proximal to anther-filament junction, dehiscent by terminal pores;
pistil 5-carpellate;
ovary pseudo 10-locular;
stigma 5-lobed, capitate.
capsular, depressed-globose, dry.
2–3 mm wide.
not winged, wedge- to crescent-shaped, not flat, 1–1.2 mm.
5–10, oblanceoloid or wedge- or crescent-shaped, flattened or not;
testa smooth, shiny, reticulate.
= 11.
= 22.
Eubotrys racemosa
Eubotrys
Eubotrys racemosa occurs primarily on the coastal plain; there are scattered records inland from the Hudson Highlands of New York, and from northern Alabama and central and eastern Tennessee.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Cassandra Spach, Hist. Nat. Vég. 9: 477. 1840, not D. Don 1834
Species 2 (2 in the flora).
Although Eubotrys sometimes is included in Leucothoë, morphological and molecular work (K. Waselkov and W. S. Judd 2008; K. A. Kron et al. 1999, 2002) indicated that it is actually a sister lineage to Chamaedaphne, rather than to Leucothoë in the narrow sense. Notably, the pedicel bracts are located close to the pedicel apex in Eubotrys, while the bracts are near the base of the pedicel in Leucothoë. The development of the inflorescences on twigs of the current year in autumn has apparently evolved in parallel within Eubotrys and Leucothoë in the narrow sense.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Racemes 3-5 cm, straight, erect or ascending; sepals lanceolate; anthers 4-awned. | E. racemosa |
1. Racemes 5-12 cm, curved or recurved, spreading or ascending; sepals ovate; anthers 2-awned. | E. recurva |
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