Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Celastraceae
Celastraceae
Description:
Species Description - A shrub or tree up to 8 m. high, with smooth grey bark and angular twigs. Leaves opposite or whorled, linear to oblong or obovate, short-petioled, 1-4 cm. long, somewhat erenate, glabrous, acutish or blunt at the apex, narrowed at the base, paler green beneath than above; flowers clustered in the axils, the clusters slender-peduncled; calyx urceolate, with 4 obtuse lobes; petals 4; disk 4-lobed; stamens 4, inserted between the lobes of the disk; ovary 4-celled; drupe about 6 mm. long, slightly oblique, red.
Species Description - A shrub or tree up to 8 m. high, with smooth grey bark and angular twigs. Leaves opposite or whorled, linear to oblong or obovate, short-petioled, 1-4 cm. long, somewhat erenate, glabrous, acutish or blunt at the apex, narrowed at the base, paler green beneath than above; flowers clustered in the axils, the clusters slender-peduncled; calyx urceolate, with 4 obtuse lobes; petals 4; disk 4-lobed; stamens 4, inserted between the lobes of the disk; ovary 4-celled; drupe about 6 mm. long, slightly oblique, red.
Distribution:
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Grand Bahama Bahamas South America| Grand Turk Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Anguilla South America| Florida United States of America North America| Bermuda South America| West Indies| Colombia South America|
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Grand Bahama Bahamas South America| Grand Turk Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Anguilla South America| Florida United States of America North America| Bermuda South America| West Indies| Colombia South America|