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:
Myrtaceae
Myrtaceae
Description:
Genus Description - Trees or shrubs, glabrous or pubescent, usually with hairs simple or less often 2-branched. Leaves opposite, with translucent oil glands. Flowers small to medium, produced in axillary panicles; bracts and bracteoles persistent; hypanthium prolonged or not beyond the ovary; sepals 5 or less often 4; petals 5 or 4, white, spreading at anthesis, deciduous; stamens numerous, the filaments free, the anthers opening by longitudinal slits; ovary 2-(3)- locular, each locule with 2 ovules, the style filiform, the stigma punctiform. Fruit a l(-3)-seeded berry, crowned by the sepals.
Distribution and Ecology - About 300 species, from tropical and subtropical America.
Genus Description - Trees or shrubs, glabrous or pubescent, usually with hairs simple or less often 2-branched. Leaves opposite, with translucent oil glands. Flowers small to medium, produced in axillary panicles; bracts and bracteoles persistent; hypanthium prolonged or not beyond the ovary; sepals 5 or less often 4; petals 5 or 4, white, spreading at anthesis, deciduous; stamens numerous, the filaments free, the anthers opening by longitudinal slits; ovary 2-(3)- locular, each locule with 2 ovules, the style filiform, the stigma punctiform. Fruit a l(-3)-seeded berry, crowned by the sepals.
Distribution and Ecology - About 300 species, from tropical and subtropical America.