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2024 has been a banner year for making the best flora we can imagine. We've created:
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Key to Ehretia

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1 Leaf blades glabrous on the upper surface; leaf margins finely and evenly serrulate
1 Leaf blades scabrous on the upper surface, with mineralized discs with antrorse appressed hairs; leaf margins entire, to toothed with a few coarse teeth near the apex; leaves 5-13 cm long, 4-6 cm wide.
  2 Inflorescences with 1-6 flowers, unbranched; leaf blades 3-6 (-12) cm long, (1.5-) 2-3 (-8) cm wide; fruits 5-8 mm in diameter
  2 Inflorescences with many flowers, a cyme-based panicle; leaf blades 1.5-3.5 cm long, 1-2 cm wide; fruits 3-5 mm in diameter