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:
Combretaceae
Combretaceae
Description:
Species Description - Small tree or shrub to 8 m tall; bark light brown, rough, with irregular plates. Leaf blades 2.5-9 x 1.5-3 cm, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, elliptic, or oblanceolate, glabrous, or with a few (to many) appressed hairs, the blades with numerous dark punctations and foveolate at vein axils, the apex acute or acuminate or rarely obtuse, the base tapering into a more or less defined petiole, the margins entire; petioles 4-10 mm long, with 2 marginal glands. Flowers in small (5-10 mm diam.), dense heads. Hypanthium short, densely sericeous; calyx with 5 ovate lobes, ca. 1.5 mm long; stamens 10, the filaments 2 mm long; disk densely sericeous. Drupes dry, 2-winged, slightly concave, grouped into globose, conelike head, to 1 cm long. Seeds nearly lenticular, ca. 1.5 mm long.
Species Description - Small tree or shrub to 8 m tall; bark light brown, rough, with irregular plates. Leaf blades 2.5-9 x 1.5-3 cm, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, elliptic, or oblanceolate, glabrous, or with a few (to many) appressed hairs, the blades with numerous dark punctations and foveolate at vein axils, the apex acute or acuminate or rarely obtuse, the base tapering into a more or less defined petiole, the margins entire; petioles 4-10 mm long, with 2 marginal glands. Flowers in small (5-10 mm diam.), dense heads. Hypanthium short, densely sericeous; calyx with 5 ovate lobes, ca. 1.5 mm long; stamens 10, the filaments 2 mm long; disk densely sericeous. Drupes dry, 2-winged, slightly concave, grouped into globose, conelike head, to 1 cm long. Seeds nearly lenticular, ca. 1.5 mm long.
Discussion:
Common names: button mangrove, button wood.
Distribution:
Africa| Saint John Virgin Islands of the United States 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|
Africa| Saint John Virgin Islands of the United States 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|