Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Combretaceae
Combretaceae
Description:
Species Description - A tree, reaching a maximum height of about 20 m. with a trunk up to 8 dm. in diameter, usually much smaller, and often shrubby, the reddish brown, glabrous twigs thickened at the nodes. Leaves oblong, oval or obovate, 2-7 cm. long, emarginate or rounded at the apex, rounded, narrowed or subeordate at the base, the stout petioles 0.5-2 cm. long; spikes 3-6 cm. long, few several- flowered; calyx tomentulose, its lobes rounded; petals 5, orbicular, not longer than the calyx; drupes oblong to obovoid, reddish, 1.5-2 cm. long, constricted below the persistent calyx-lobes.
Species Description - A tree, reaching a maximum height of about 20 m. with a trunk up to 8 dm. in diameter, usually much smaller, and often shrubby, the reddish brown, glabrous twigs thickened at the nodes. Leaves oblong, oval or obovate, 2-7 cm. long, emarginate or rounded at the apex, rounded, narrowed or subeordate at the base, the stout petioles 0.5-2 cm. long; spikes 3-6 cm. long, few several- flowered; calyx tomentulose, its lobes rounded; petals 5, orbicular, not longer than the calyx; drupes oblong to obovoid, reddish, 1.5-2 cm. long, constricted below the persistent calyx-lobes.
Discussion:
Borders of mangrove mud and in sea-shallows. Great Bahama, Great Sturrup Cay, Little Harbor Cay, Andros, New Providence. Ship Channel Cay, Great Guana cay. Great Fxtima, Eleuthera, Cat Island, Fortune Island, Grand Turk, and the Anguilla Isles: Florida: West Indies; tropic continental American coasts. WHITE Mangrove. Bastard Buttonwood. Green Turtle Bough.
Distribution:
Grand Bahama Bahamas South America| Andros Island Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Exuma Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Cat Island Bahamas South America| Grand Turk Bahamas South America| Anguilla South America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies|
Grand Bahama Bahamas South America| Andros Island Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Exuma Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Cat Island Bahamas South America| Grand Turk Bahamas South America| Anguilla South America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies|