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:
Menispermaceae
Menispermaceae
Description:
Genus Description - Dioecious, herbaceous, twining vines, usually with simple hairs. Leaves rounded to ovate, peltate or cordate at base, palmately veined, long-petiolate. Rowers minute, unisexual, pedicellate, in axillary inflorescences. Staminate flowers in corymbs; calyx of 4 free sepals; corolla cup-shaped; stamens 4, connate into a short tube, with sessile anthers. Pistillate flowers zygomorphic, in elongate cymes with foliaceous bracts; calyx and corolla of a single sepal and a single petal, both toward same side; ovary sessile, unilocular, with a single basal ovule, the stigma lobed. Drupe globose, fleshy, with a verrucose stone; seeds horseshoe-shaped.
Genus Description - Dioecious, herbaceous, twining vines, usually with simple hairs. Leaves rounded to ovate, peltate or cordate at base, palmately veined, long-petiolate. Rowers minute, unisexual, pedicellate, in axillary inflorescences. Staminate flowers in corymbs; calyx of 4 free sepals; corolla cup-shaped; stamens 4, connate into a short tube, with sessile anthers. Pistillate flowers zygomorphic, in elongate cymes with foliaceous bracts; calyx and corolla of a single sepal and a single petal, both toward same side; ovary sessile, unilocular, with a single basal ovule, the stigma lobed. Drupe globose, fleshy, with a verrucose stone; seeds horseshoe-shaped.
Distribution:
Saint John Virgin Islands of the United States South America|
Saint John Virgin Islands of the United States South America|