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:
Rubiaceae
Rubiaceae
Description:
Genus Description - Shrubs or small trees, usually glabrous. Leaves membranous to rigidly papery, entire; stipules interpetiolar, entire, connate at base, cuspidate at apex, persistent. Flowers bisexual, 4-merous, actinomorphic, in terminal or less often axillary panicles, corymbs, umbels, or heads; hypanthium ovoid to cup-shaped, crowned by a cup-shaped or tubular truncate or toothed calyx; corolla trumpet-shaped or funnel-shaped, with a glabrous throat, the lobes 4-5, oblong, elongate, valvate in bud; stamens 4-6, the filaments inserted at the throat or on the upper half of corolla tube, the anthers linear; ovary inferior, 2-carpellate, unilocular or seemingly bilocular, with 2 basal ovules, the style filiform, the stigma lineate. Fruit a 1-seeded berry.
Genus Description - Shrubs or small trees, usually glabrous. Leaves membranous to rigidly papery, entire; stipules interpetiolar, entire, connate at base, cuspidate at apex, persistent. Flowers bisexual, 4-merous, actinomorphic, in terminal or less often axillary panicles, corymbs, umbels, or heads; hypanthium ovoid to cup-shaped, crowned by a cup-shaped or tubular truncate or toothed calyx; corolla trumpet-shaped or funnel-shaped, with a glabrous throat, the lobes 4-5, oblong, elongate, valvate in bud; stamens 4-6, the filaments inserted at the throat or on the upper half of corolla tube, the anthers linear; ovary inferior, 2-carpellate, unilocular or seemingly bilocular, with 2 basal ovules, the style filiform, the stigma lineate. Fruit a 1-seeded berry.