Vitis rotundifolia |
Vitis cinerea |
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muscadine, scuppernong |
downy or sweet winter or graybark grape, graybark grape, parra silvestre, sweet grape |
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Habit | Plants usually high climbing or sprawling, sometimes shrubby, usually sparsely branched. | Plants high climbing, sparsely branched. | ||||||||||||||||
Branches | branchlets terete to slightly angled, usually sparsely grayish arachnoid, glabrescent, growing tips not enveloped by unfolding leaves; tendrils along length of branchlets, persistent, tendrils (or inflorescences) at only 2 consecutive nodes; nodes sometimes red-banded. |
bark exfoliating in shreds; nodal diaphragms 1.5–3.5 mm thick; branchlets slightly to distinctly angled, densely hirtellous and/or sparsely to densely arachnoid, to glabrate, growing tips not enveloped by unfolding leaves; tendrils along length of branchlets, persistent, branched, tendrils (or inflorescences) at only 2 consecutive nodes; nodes sometimes red-banded. |
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Leaves | stipules 1–2 mm; petiole mostly ± equaling blade; blade cordate to nearly reniform, 2–12 cm, rarely lobed, apex short acuminate, abaxial surface not glaucous, glabrous, visible through hairs, veins and vein axils sometimes sparsely to densely hirtellous, adaxial surface glabrous. |
stipules 1–3 mm; petiole ± equaling blade; blade cordate, 6–20 cm, usually unlobed to 3-shouldered, sometimes 3-lobed, apex acute to acuminate, abaxial surface not glaucous, sparsely to densely arachnoid or glabrous, visible through hairs, veins and vein axils hirtellous, adaxial surface glabrous or hairy. |
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Inflorescences | 3–8(–10) cm. |
10–25 cm. |
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Flowers | functionally unisexual. |
functionally unisexual. |
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Berries | usually black or purplish, sometimes bronze when ripe, glaucous, globose, 8–25 mm diam., skin separating from pulp; lenticels present. |
black, slightly or not glaucous, globose, 4–8 mm diam., skin separating from pulp, lenticels absent. |
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Vitis rotundifolia |
Vitis cinerea |
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Distribution |
AL; AR; DE; FL; GA; KY; LA; MD; MO; MS; NC; OK; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV
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AL; AR; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MD; MO; MS; NC; NE; OH; OK; PA; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV; ne Mexico
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 5 (4 in the flora). Vitis cinerea var. tomentosa (Planchon) Comeaux is endemic to northeastern Mexico (B. L. Comeaux and J. Lu 2000). Vitis cinerea is sometimes confused with V. aestivalis; see the discussion under that species. Vitis cinerea as defined here is highly variable and is in need of field studies and phylogeographic analysis, along with its tropical relatives V. biforma Rose and V. tiliifolia. Wan Y. et al. (2013) concluded that V. cinerea is not monophyletic. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 12, p. 7. | FNA vol. 12, p. 13. | ||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Vitaceae > Vitis > subg. Muscadinia | Vitaceae > Vitis > subg. Vitis | ||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Muscadinia rotundifolia | V. aestivalis var. cinerea | ||||||||||||||||
Name authority | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 231. (1803) | (Engelmann) Millardet: Mém. Soc. Sci. Phys. Nat. Bordeaux, sér. 2, 3: 319, 336. (1880) | ||||||||||||||||
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