Monographs Details:
Authority:
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
Family:
Myrtaceae
Myrtaceae
Description:
Species Description - Small tree 5-7 m tall; bark grayish brown, smooth, thin, peeling off in long irregular flakes; twigs flattened, puberulent, becoming glabrous and cylindric. Leaf blades 3-6 x 1-2.5 cm, elliptic to lanceolate, chartaceous, glabrous, obscurely glanddotted, midvein planar on upper surface, the apex long-acuminate, the base acute to obtuse, the margins entire; petioles 2-4 mm long, puberulent. Flowers few, nearly sessile, clustered in leaf axils; bracteoles rounded, connate around base of hypanthium. Hypanthium funnel-shaped, ca. 1.5 mm long, glabrous, the sepals rounded, 1-1.5 mm long, gland-dotted, villous; petals, white, obovate, ca. 1.3 mm long; disk ca. 1 mm wide, glabrous; stamens numerous, the filaments ca. 2.5 mm long, glabrous. Berry globose to oblate, 8-10 mm diam., smooth, turning from green to orange when mature.
Species Description - Small tree 5-7 m tall; bark grayish brown, smooth, thin, peeling off in long irregular flakes; twigs flattened, puberulent, becoming glabrous and cylindric. Leaf blades 3-6 x 1-2.5 cm, elliptic to lanceolate, chartaceous, glabrous, obscurely glanddotted, midvein planar on upper surface, the apex long-acuminate, the base acute to obtuse, the margins entire; petioles 2-4 mm long, puberulent. Flowers few, nearly sessile, clustered in leaf axils; bracteoles rounded, connate around base of hypanthium. Hypanthium funnel-shaped, ca. 1.5 mm long, glabrous, the sepals rounded, 1-1.5 mm long, gland-dotted, villous; petals, white, obovate, ca. 1.3 mm long; disk ca. 1 mm wide, glabrous; stamens numerous, the filaments ca. 2.5 mm long, glabrous. Berry globose to oblate, 8-10 mm diam., smooth, turning from green to orange when mature.
Discussion:
Common name: guavaberry.
Distribution:
South America| West Indies| México Mexico North America| West Indies| Cuba South America| Puerto Rico South America| Virgin Gorda Virgin Islands South America| Tortola Virgin Islands South America| Saint Thomas Virgin Islands of the United States South America| Saint Croix Virgin Islands of the United States South America| Virgin Islands South America|
South America| West Indies| México Mexico North America| West Indies| Cuba South America| Puerto Rico South America| Virgin Gorda Virgin Islands South America| Tortola Virgin Islands South America| Saint Thomas Virgin Islands of the United States South America| Saint Croix Virgin Islands of the United States South America| Virgin Islands South America|