Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Myrtaceae
Myrtaceae
Description:
Description - Evergreen shrubs or trees, with opposite coriaceous or subcoriaceous leaves, and small panicled cymose or rarely solitary flowers. Calyx closed at anthesis, circumscissile, the top falling away like a cap or calyptra. Petals none. Stamens numerous, in several series; filaments filiform; anthers longitudinally dishiscent. Ovary 2-3-celled; ovules 2 in each cavity. Fruit a 1-few-seeded berry, crowned by the basal part of the calyx. [Greek, referring to the cap-like lid of the calyx.] About 75 species, of tropical and subtropical America. Type species: Calyptranthes Chytraculia (L.) Sw.
Description - Evergreen shrubs or trees, with opposite coriaceous or subcoriaceous leaves, and small panicled cymose or rarely solitary flowers. Calyx closed at anthesis, circumscissile, the top falling away like a cap or calyptra. Petals none. Stamens numerous, in several series; filaments filiform; anthers longitudinally dishiscent. Ovary 2-3-celled; ovules 2 in each cavity. Fruit a 1-few-seeded berry, crowned by the basal part of the calyx. [Greek, referring to the cap-like lid of the calyx.] About 75 species, of tropical and subtropical America. Type species: Calyptranthes Chytraculia (L.) Sw.