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Piscidia piscipula

dogwood, fish-fuddle tree, Florida fishpoison tree, Jamaican-dogwood
Habit Shrubs or trees to 20 m. Leaves: stipules obliquely reniform, 3–5 × 3–6 mm; pinna blade ovate to elliptic, 40–170 × 20–110 mm, base rounded to cuneate, apex obtuse to acute or acuminate, surfaces micro-alveolate or sericeous, or hairs slightly crispate abaxially, sometimes glabrescent, veinlets usually more densely pubescent, sericeous or minutely pilose to glabrescent adaxially.
Inflorescences

with densely gray-puberulent axis;

bracts at base of pedicel, ovate to elliptic, 1–1.5 × 1 mm, apex obtuse;

bracteoles caducous, paired at base of calyx, ovate to elliptic, 2–3 × 1 mm, apex acute.
Pedicels

4 mm.
Flowers

calyx subactinomorphic, 4–6 mm, silvery-sericeous or subsericeous;

lobes relatively short, subequal, adaxial lobes often connate;

corolla 12–15 mm;

banner pubescent abaxially;

anthers oblong;

ovary sessile to shortly stipitate;

style filiform, glabrous distally;

stigma terminal, minutely penicillate.
Seeds

laterally compressed, 4.5–6 × 2.5–3 mm, lustrous;

hilum lateral, orbiculate, to 1 mm diam. 2n = 22.
Loments

stipe 1–3 mm; 40–100 × 30–45 mm.

Piscidia piscipula
Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun, fruiting Jul–Sep.
Habitat Hammocks, shell middens, pine rocklands.
Elevation 0–30 m. (0–100 ft.)
Distribution
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FL; Mexico; Central America; West Indies
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Discussion

In the flora area, Piscidia piscipula is known in peninsular Florida, from Miami-Dade and Monroe counties, including the Florida Keys, northward through the western coastal counties to Hillsborough and Pinellas counties.

Piscidia erythrina Linnaeus, P. inebrians Medikus, P. toxicaria Salisbury, and Robinia alata Miller are superfluous, illegitimate names that pertain here.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Piscidia
Synonyms Erythrina piscipula, Ichthyomethia communis, I. piscipula, P. communis
Name authority (Linnaeus) Sargent: Gard. & Forest 4: 436. (1891)
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