Biology:Mosiera longipes
| Mosiera longipes | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Mosiera |
| Species: | M. longipes
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| Binomial name | |
| Mosiera longipes (O.Berg) Small
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Mosiera longipes is a species of plant in the family Myrtaceae.[2] Its common names include mangroveberry, Bahama stopper, and long-stalked stopper.[3] It is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List and shows a declining population trend.[1]
Description
Mangroveberry is a medium-sized shrub, rarely becoming a small tree. [4] It has wide-spreading branches and very short trunks. The opposite leaves are oval and shiny, the flowers have four white to pink petals and a tuft of prominent stamens, and the round fruit ripens from red to black.[5]
Range
Mangroveberry occurs in the Bahamas, Florida, Haiti, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, and the Turks and Caicos Islands, [6] but may have been extirpated from Puerto Rico.[1]
Habitat
This species occurs in mostly sunny areas of hammocks and pine rockland.[5] It grows in both sand and hardened limestone along rocky coastlands,[7] but has a low tolerance for salt wind and salt or brackish water flooding.[4]
Ecology
Although nearly ubiquitous in suitable habitat in the Bahamas, mangroveberry globally has fragmented and declining populations. The main threats are residential and commercial development, wildfire suppression, and sea level rise.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Mosiera longipes" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:164513-2. Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "IUCN Red List-Mosiera longipes" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ "Mangroveberry (Mosiera longipes)" (in en). https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/782188-Mosiera-longipes.
- ↑ "Mosiera longipes" (in en). https://fsus.ncbg.unc.edu/cust/2025/main.php?pg=show-taxon-detail.php&taxonid=8798.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Long-stalked Stopper (Mosiera longipes)" (in en). https://www.regionalconservation.org/beta/nfyn/plantdetail.asp?tx=Mosilong.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Mangroveberry" (in en). https://www.fnai.org/PDFs/FieldGuides/Mosiera_longipes.pdf.
- ↑ "Mosiera longipes" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:164513-2.
- ↑ "Mosiera longipes" (in en). https://levypreserve.org/plant-listings/mosiera-longipes/.
Wikidata ☰ Q15372506 entry
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