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:
Symplocaceae
Symplocaceae
Description:
Species Description - Tree 7-10 m tall, sometimes with numerous branches from base; bark light gray, slightly fissured; twigs glabrous or puberulent, angled. Leaf blades involute, 5-16 X 2.5-5.8 cm, obovate, elliptic, or oblong, coriaceous, glabrous, with prominent midvein along lower surface, the apex long-acuminate, the base acute to obtuse, sometimes unequal, the margins crenate to serrate; petioles 1-2 mm long, puberulent. Flowers nearly sessile, a few in axillary short racemes; peduncles <1 cm long. Calyx green, bell-shaped, 2.5 mm long, 5-lobed, the lobes ovate, ca. 1 mm long, ciliate; corolla white, the tube 5-7 mm long, the lobes as long as the tube, oblong, reflexed; stamens exserted, in 2 series, the inner series shorter, the filaments adnate to corolla tube; ovary semiinferior, 3-5-locular, pubescent, the stigma cup-shaped. Drupe ellipsoid, 10-13 mm long, bluish black at maturity.
Species Description - Tree 7-10 m tall, sometimes with numerous branches from base; bark light gray, slightly fissured; twigs glabrous or puberulent, angled. Leaf blades involute, 5-16 X 2.5-5.8 cm, obovate, elliptic, or oblong, coriaceous, glabrous, with prominent midvein along lower surface, the apex long-acuminate, the base acute to obtuse, sometimes unequal, the margins crenate to serrate; petioles 1-2 mm long, puberulent. Flowers nearly sessile, a few in axillary short racemes; peduncles <1 cm long. Calyx green, bell-shaped, 2.5 mm long, 5-lobed, the lobes ovate, ca. 1 mm long, ciliate; corolla white, the tube 5-7 mm long, the lobes as long as the tube, oblong, reflexed; stamens exserted, in 2 series, the inner series shorter, the filaments adnate to corolla tube; ovary semiinferior, 3-5-locular, pubescent, the stigma cup-shaped. Drupe ellipsoid, 10-13 mm long, bluish black at maturity.
Distribution:
French Guiana South America| West Indies| Puerto Rico South America| Tortola Virgin Islands South America| Saint Thomas Virgin Islands of the United States South America| Tortola Virgin Islands South America|
French Guiana South America| West Indies| Puerto Rico South America| Tortola Virgin Islands South America| Saint Thomas Virgin Islands of the United States South America| Tortola Virgin Islands South America|