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:
Lauraceae
Lauraceae
Description:
Species Description - Dioecious tree to 20 m tall; trunk to 30 cm diam.; bark grayish or brown, smooth, becoming slightly fissured; branches ferruginous-tomentose when young, becoming glabrous. Leaf blades 8-25 x 3-8 cm, oblong-lanceolate, elliptic, or oblongelliptic coriaceous, reticulate-veined, glabrous, usually with numerous insect galls, the apex obtuse or acute, the base obtuse to rounded, the margins revolute; petioles 1-1.5 cm long. Rowers unisexual with remnant parts of opposite sex, yellowish green in axillary panicles, the axes sparsely pubescent; tepals ovate 2-2.2 mm long, glabrate to sparsely papillate within; stamens 9. Fruit cupule 5-8 mm wide, funnel-shaped, brown, warty, with truncate apex, the fruit globose, 8-10 mm long, turning from green to black, glabrous.
Distribution and Ecology - A common species of moist secondary forests. Bordeaux area (A2099), Susannaberg (A847). Also on St. Croix, St. Thomas, Tortola, and Virgin Gorda; Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles.
Species Description - Dioecious tree to 20 m tall; trunk to 30 cm diam.; bark grayish or brown, smooth, becoming slightly fissured; branches ferruginous-tomentose when young, becoming glabrous. Leaf blades 8-25 x 3-8 cm, oblong-lanceolate, elliptic, or oblongelliptic coriaceous, reticulate-veined, glabrous, usually with numerous insect galls, the apex obtuse or acute, the base obtuse to rounded, the margins revolute; petioles 1-1.5 cm long. Rowers unisexual with remnant parts of opposite sex, yellowish green in axillary panicles, the axes sparsely pubescent; tepals ovate 2-2.2 mm long, glabrate to sparsely papillate within; stamens 9. Fruit cupule 5-8 mm wide, funnel-shaped, brown, warty, with truncate apex, the fruit globose, 8-10 mm long, turning from green to black, glabrous.
Distribution and Ecology - A common species of moist secondary forests. Bordeaux area (A2099), Susannaberg (A847). Also on St. Croix, St. Thomas, Tortola, and Virgin Gorda; Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles.