Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Rubiaceae
Rubiaceae
Description:
Description - Shrubs, or small trees, with opposite or verticillate, petioled leaves, narrow deciduous stipules, and red or yellow flowers secund on the branches of terminal compound cymes. Calyx-tube ovoid to turbinate, its 5 short lobes persistent. Corolla tubular, or narrowly campanulate, constricted at the base, the limb 5-lobed, the lobes short, imbricated. Stamens 5, borne near the base of the corolla; filament short; anthers basifixed, linear, scarcely exserted, or included, the connective appendaged. Ovary 5-celled; style filiform; stigma narrowly fusiform; ovules numerous in each cavity. Berry small, ovoid, 5- lobed, 5-celled. Seeds very small, angled. [In honor of II. L. du Hamel de Monceau, 1700-1782, French botanist.] About 25 species of tropical and subtropical America. Type species: Hamelia erecta Jacq.
Description - Shrubs, or small trees, with opposite or verticillate, petioled leaves, narrow deciduous stipules, and red or yellow flowers secund on the branches of terminal compound cymes. Calyx-tube ovoid to turbinate, its 5 short lobes persistent. Corolla tubular, or narrowly campanulate, constricted at the base, the limb 5-lobed, the lobes short, imbricated. Stamens 5, borne near the base of the corolla; filament short; anthers basifixed, linear, scarcely exserted, or included, the connective appendaged. Ovary 5-celled; style filiform; stigma narrowly fusiform; ovules numerous in each cavity. Berry small, ovoid, 5- lobed, 5-celled. Seeds very small, angled. [In honor of II. L. du Hamel de Monceau, 1700-1782, French botanist.] About 25 species of tropical and subtropical America. Type species: Hamelia erecta Jacq.