Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Euphorbiaceae
Euphorbiaceae
Description:
Species Description - An evergreen tree 4-20 m. high. Leaves shining, glabrous, thickish, ovate or oval, 4-10 em. long, blunt or somewhat narrowed at the base, acute or short-acuminate, undulate or slightly shallow-serrate; principal veins at nearly right angles to the midrib; veinlets delicately reticulate; petioles slender, somewhat shorter, or at times longer, than the blades; stipules 4-S mm. long; bracts broader than long, crenulate; male calyx with 3 unequal acute lobes; female calyx of ovate or orbicular sepals; drupe spheroidal when fresh, 2.5-3.5 cm. in diameter, yellowish; nut depressed, often bearing numerous grouped thorn-like projections.
Species Description - An evergreen tree 4-20 m. high. Leaves shining, glabrous, thickish, ovate or oval, 4-10 em. long, blunt or somewhat narrowed at the base, acute or short-acuminate, undulate or slightly shallow-serrate; principal veins at nearly right angles to the midrib; veinlets delicately reticulate; petioles slender, somewhat shorter, or at times longer, than the blades; stipules 4-S mm. long; bracts broader than long, crenulate; male calyx with 3 unequal acute lobes; female calyx of ovate or orbicular sepals; drupe spheroidal when fresh, 2.5-3.5 cm. in diameter, yellowish; nut depressed, often bearing numerous grouped thorn-like projections.
Distribution:
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Anguilla South America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies| México Mexico North America|
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Anguilla South America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies| México Mexico North America|