Monographs Details:
Authority:
Acevedo-RodrÃguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
Acevedo-RodrÃguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
Family:
Malpighiaceae
Malpighiaceae
Description:
Genus Description - Shrubs or trees, usually armed with simple or T-shaped hairs. Leaves entire, pinnately veined, with a pair of impressed lower portion of blade; petioles glandless; stipules small, free, borne at base of petiole. Rowers pedicellate, in axillary or terminal racemelike inflorescences; bracteoles with a large, fleshy gland; calyx of 5 sepals, all or 4 of them bearing a pair of fleshy glands without; petals yellow or nearly white; stamens 10, the anthers uniform; ovary of 2-3 connate carpels, the style free to completely connate. Fruit a fleshy drupe containing 2 or 3 1-seeded pyrenes.
Genus Description - Shrubs or trees, usually armed with simple or T-shaped hairs. Leaves entire, pinnately veined, with a pair of impressed lower portion of blade; petioles glandless; stipules small, free, borne at base of petiole. Rowers pedicellate, in axillary or terminal racemelike inflorescences; bracteoles with a large, fleshy gland; calyx of 5 sepals, all or 4 of them bearing a pair of fleshy glands without; petals yellow or nearly white; stamens 10, the anthers uniform; ovary of 2-3 connate carpels, the style free to completely connate. Fruit a fleshy drupe containing 2 or 3 1-seeded pyrenes.