Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Myrtaceae
Myrtaceae
Description:
Species Description - A small tree, sometimes 8 m. high with a trunk up to 3 dm. in diameter, the twigs slender, the smooth bark gray, the foliage glabrous. Leaves ovate to elliptic or rhombic-ovate, rather thin, inconspicuously veined, 3-6 cm. long, bluntly acuminate or acute at the apex, obtuse or narrowed at the base, shortpetioled; flowers in sessile axillary umbel-like clusters, often appearing on twigs from which the leaves have fallen, the slender glabrous pedicels 8-15 mm. long; calyx-tube shorter than the 4 rounded lobes; petals ovate, about 5 mm. long, about twice as long as the calyx-lobes; fruit depressed-globose, orange, red or nearly black, 0.8-1.5 cm. in diameter.
Species Description - A small tree, sometimes 8 m. high with a trunk up to 3 dm. in diameter, the twigs slender, the smooth bark gray, the foliage glabrous. Leaves ovate to elliptic or rhombic-ovate, rather thin, inconspicuously veined, 3-6 cm. long, bluntly acuminate or acute at the apex, obtuse or narrowed at the base, shortpetioled; flowers in sessile axillary umbel-like clusters, often appearing on twigs from which the leaves have fallen, the slender glabrous pedicels 8-15 mm. long; calyx-tube shorter than the 4 rounded lobes; petals ovate, about 5 mm. long, about twice as long as the calyx-lobes; fruit depressed-globose, orange, red or nearly black, 0.8-1.5 cm. in diameter.
Distribution:
Long Island Bahamas South America| Acklins Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America| Cuba South America| Guadeloupe South America| Jamaica South America|
Long Island Bahamas South America| Acklins Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America| Cuba South America| Guadeloupe South America| Jamaica South America|