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:
Verbenaceae
Verbenaceae
Description:
Species Description - Erect or climbing shrub to 3 m long; stems cylindrical, usually finely striate, puberulent, with 2 or 3, opposite or whorled spines at the nodes. Leaves opposite or ternate; blades 1.5-7 x 0.5-2.6 cm, oblong to elliptic-obovate, chartaceous, glabrous or puberulent, pitted, the apex acute or obtuse, the base narrowed, cuneate or rounded, the margins entire; petioles 2.5-10 mm long, puberulent. Cymes axillary, 2-6 cm long. Calyx greenish, bell-shaped, puberulent, 2.5-4 mm long, the lobes spreading; corolla white, trumpetshaped, 14-27 mm long, the tube sometimes purplish without, the lobes spreading 9-14 mm wide, ciliate; filaments twice as long as the corolla, lax, pinkish; style as long as the filaments, erect or nearly so, purplish. Drupe ovoid to depressed-ovoid, 5- 7 mm long, turning from green to brown and splitting in two at maturity.
Distribution and Ecology - A common shrub of dry and disturbed habitats. East End (A5140), Emmaus (A1994), Waterlemon Bay (1934). Also on Anegada, Jost van Dyke, St. Croix, St. Thomas, and Tortola; throughout the West Indies and in Venezuela.
Species Description - Erect or climbing shrub to 3 m long; stems cylindrical, usually finely striate, puberulent, with 2 or 3, opposite or whorled spines at the nodes. Leaves opposite or ternate; blades 1.5-7 x 0.5-2.6 cm, oblong to elliptic-obovate, chartaceous, glabrous or puberulent, pitted, the apex acute or obtuse, the base narrowed, cuneate or rounded, the margins entire; petioles 2.5-10 mm long, puberulent. Cymes axillary, 2-6 cm long. Calyx greenish, bell-shaped, puberulent, 2.5-4 mm long, the lobes spreading; corolla white, trumpetshaped, 14-27 mm long, the tube sometimes purplish without, the lobes spreading 9-14 mm wide, ciliate; filaments twice as long as the corolla, lax, pinkish; style as long as the filaments, erect or nearly so, purplish. Drupe ovoid to depressed-ovoid, 5- 7 mm long, turning from green to brown and splitting in two at maturity.
Distribution and Ecology - A common shrub of dry and disturbed habitats. East End (A5140), Emmaus (A1994), Waterlemon Bay (1934). Also on Anegada, Jost van Dyke, St. Croix, St. Thomas, and Tortola; throughout the West Indies and in Venezuela.
Discussion:
Common name: chuc chuc.