Monographs Details:
Authority:

Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
Family:

Rutaceae
Scientific Name:

Zanthoxylum flavum Vahl
Description:

Species Description - Unarmed tree, 6-10 m tall; bark gray, smooth; twigs nearly cylindrical, densely stellate-pubescent. Leaves 15-30(-40) x 10-25(-30) cm; leaflets 5-7(-13), coriaceous, 3.5-11 (-15) x 1.5-5(-8) cm, oblong-elliptic to nearly lanceolate, sparsely stellate pubescent, the apex obtuse to rounded, slightly notched, the base obtuse to rounded, unequal on lateral leaflets, the margins crenate; petioles 5-6 cm long. Flowers 4-merous, in axillary panicles. Calyx of triangular lobes ca. 5 mm long; petals white, 2.5-3.2 mm long, oblong; stamens 4, early deciduous; nectary disk ca. 0.5 mm high, glabrous; ovary glabrous, 2-lobed, 2-carpellate, the carpels united but separating at maturity, the style terminal, the stigma nearly bilobed. Follicles 2, stipitate, nearly obovoid, punctate. Seeds ovoid, shiny dark brown, ca. 4.5 mm long.

Discussion:

Common names: satin wood, yellow sandalwood.

Distribution:

West Indies| Florida United States of America North America| Saint John Virgin Islands of the United States South America| South America|