Ardisia crenata

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Family:PRIMULACEAE
Species:Ardisia crenata Sims
Common Name:Hen's Eyes; Coral Ardisia; Coralberry
Habitat:**
Associated Ecological Communities:**
Growth Habit:Shrub
Duration:Perennial
Category:Vascular
USDA Symbol:ARCR80
Plant Notes:Coralberry is an introduced evergreen shrub in the Primrose family (Primulaceae). It is native to China, India, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam. In Alabama it is sometimes cultivated and has escaped in the southern third of the state. Coralberry occurs in urban woodlands, hardwood hummocks, and streamside forests. It is an evergreen shrub growing from 3-6 feet in height. Young stems are green in color, older stems have smooth tan bark. The branches are minutely reddish glandular papillate. Leaves are alternate, petiolate, elliptic to lanceolate in outline, with crenate, undulate, or sub-revolute margins, and with 10-35 large thickened vascular nodules along the margins. The leaf surfaces are minutely reddish glandular papillate. Flowers are produced in terminal umbels or cymes on specialized 2-3 leaved lateral branches. Individual flowers have 4-6 glabrous sepals and 3-6 pink or white petals. The fruit is a red globose drupe. The leaf nodules of Coralberry house colonies of obligate endosymbiotic bacterial in the genus Burkholderia. In a complex relationship the bacteria are permanently maintained in the shoot apex and infect developing leaves and flowers. The bacteria are transferred through the seeds. Loss of the endosymbionts is reported to eventually result in death of the plant. Coralberry is sometimes planted as an ornamental. It is listed as an invasive species in Florida, Texas, and Hawaii. In Alabama it is listed as a Category 2 invasive species by the Alabama Invasive Plant Council. Coralberry is toxic to livestock.—A. Diamond.
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Not Native
References:**
Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

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Classification

FamilyPRIMULACEAE - Primrose family
Genus Ardisia
Species Ardisia crenata Sims - Hen's Eyes; Coral Ardisia; Coralberry

Citation

Citation Ardisia crenata Sims, Bot. Mag. 45: t. 1950. 1817.
Basionym: **
Type: CHINA:

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Synonyms

SynonymFull CitationBasionymType
Ardisia lentiginosa Ardisia lentiginosa Ker Gawler, Bot. Reg. 7: t. 533. 1821.  
Bladhia crenata Bladhia crenata (Sims) H. Hara, Enum. Sperm. Jap. 1: 75. 1948.Ardisia crenata Sims 1818. 
Bladhia lentiginosa Bladhia lentiginosa (Ker Gawler) Nakai, in Nakai & Koidzumi, Trees Shrubs Japan, ed. 2. 283. 1927.Ardisia lentiginosa Ker-Gawler 1821. 
Bladhia lentiginosa var. lanceolata Bladhia lentiginosa (Ker Gawler) Nakai, var. lanceolata Masamune, Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Taiwan 29: 344. 1939. JAPAN: Ryukyu Islands: Iriomote: Hatomamori, s.d., Fukuyama 7318 (holotype: TUS).

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Baldwin, Coffee, Dale, Houston, Mobile

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, JSU, TROY, UWAL, UWFP

Range of years during which specimens were collected: -

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
TROY000048237 Coffee 05 Jun 2019 Diamond, Alvin R.
28971		 TROY
Ardisia crenata Sims
UWFP013420 Baldwin 17 Sep 1994 J.R. Burkhalter
14365		 UWFP
Ardisia crenata Sims
TROY000053695 Dale 01 Jan 2023 Diamond, Alvin R.
29924		 TROY
Ardisia crenata Sims
UWAL0036267 Mobile 02 Mar 2017 Horne, Howard E.
3690		 UWAL
Ardisia crenata Sims
JSU134097 Baldwin 1 Jun 1998 Todia, Gena
s.n.		 JSU
Ardisia crenata Sims
UWAL0044019 Baldwin 06 Mar 2000 Larsen, Harry S.
284		 UWAL
Ardisia crenata Sims
UWFP013421 Baldwin 24 Apr 2004 James R. Burkhalter
19824		 UWFP
Ardisia crenata Sims
ALNHS00003332 Houston 17 Jun 2015 Barger, T. Wayne
DTP-214		 ALNHS
Ardisia crenata Sims
UWAL0036319 Mobile 02 Mar 2017 Horne, Howard E.
3690		 UWAL
Ardisia crenata Sims
UWAL0045569 Mobile 13 Aug 2017 Horne, Howard E.
4102		 UWAL
Ardisia crenata Sims
UWAL0011617 Mobile 17 Sep 2011 Horne, Howard E.
1676		 UWAL
Ardisia crenata Sims
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