Netleaf hackberry

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Netleaf hackberry immature fruit

Netleaf hackberry

Netleaf hackberry bark

Netleaf hackberry immature fruit

Netleaf hackberry leaves

Netleaf hackberry habit

Netleaf hackberry leaves

Morphology

Trunk

Stems or trunk ascending; bark light gray to gray, furrows irregular, deep, ridges short, prominently corky or warty; wood white to light yellow, soft.

Twigs

Reddish brown, flexible, villous; leaf scars half-round; buds reddish brown, ovoid, .12 to .16 inch, apex obtuse to acute, scales minutely pubescent.

Leaves

Deciduous, alternate, simple; stipules caducous, lanceolate, .16 to .2 inch; petiole .12 to .3 inch; blade asymmetric, ovate to triangular-ovate, .8 to 2.8 inches long, .6 to 1.6 inch wide, thick, base cordate, oblique, margins sparsely serrate in distal half, more or less antrorsely ciliate, apex acute to short-acuminate, lower surface grayish green, hirsute, upper surface green to yellowish green, glabrous or scabrous.

Flowers

Staminate inflorescences: axillary at base of new shoots, fascicles, 2-3-flowered or flowers solitary; pedicels .2 to .3 inch; pistillate inflorescences: axillary toward tip of new shoots, fascicles, 2-flowered or flowers solitary; pedicels .24 to .28 inch. Flowers mostly unisexual, few bisexual, radially symmetric; staminate flowers: sepals 4(-5), distinct, ovate, .08 to .12 inch, petals absent; stamens 4(-5); pistillate flowers: sepals 4(-5), connate proximally, calyx lobes ovate, .08 to .3 inch; pistil 1; style 1; stigmas 2.

Fruit

August-September; drupes, orange to reddish brown or red, globose, .3 to .4 inch, glabrous; stone 1, cream-colored, globose, ca. .2 to .24 inch, irregularly marked with a network pattern.

Ecology

Habitat

Dry limestone slopes, rock outcrops, ravines, canyons.

Distribution

West 2/3 of Kansas

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