Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Rubiaceae
Rubiaceae
Description:
Description - "Woody vines, or shrubs, with broad opposite subcoriaceous or chartaceous leaves, broad stipules, and small, yellow or white flowers in axillary, simple or compound racemes. Calyx-tube ovoid to turbinate, the limb 5-toothed, persistent. Corolla funnelform or narrowly campanulate, with 5 valvate reflexed or spreading lobes. Stamens 5, borne toward the base of the corollatube; filaments mostly pubescent, connate at the base; anthers linear, basifixed, not exserted. Ovary 2-celled, rarely 3-celled; style filiform; ovules solitary in each cavity, pendulous. Drupe flattened, leathery, white. Seedcoat membranous; endosperm fleshy. [Greek, snowberry.] About 10 species, natives of Florida, Bermuda and tropical America. Type species: Chiococca racemosa L.
Description - "Woody vines, or shrubs, with broad opposite subcoriaceous or chartaceous leaves, broad stipules, and small, yellow or white flowers in axillary, simple or compound racemes. Calyx-tube ovoid to turbinate, the limb 5-toothed, persistent. Corolla funnelform or narrowly campanulate, with 5 valvate reflexed or spreading lobes. Stamens 5, borne toward the base of the corollatube; filaments mostly pubescent, connate at the base; anthers linear, basifixed, not exserted. Ovary 2-celled, rarely 3-celled; style filiform; ovules solitary in each cavity, pendulous. Drupe flattened, leathery, white. Seedcoat membranous; endosperm fleshy. [Greek, snowberry.] About 10 species, natives of Florida, Bermuda and tropical America. Type species: Chiococca racemosa L.