Cordia sulcata DC.
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
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Family
Boraginaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Small tree or shrub to 10 m tall; young branches and inflorescence axes covered with rusty-brown hairs. Leaf blades 9-45 x .5-19 cm, lanceolate, elliptic, or ovate, upper surface more or less scabrous, lower surface, densely to sparsely pubescent with prominent reticulate veins, chartaceous to coriaceous, the apex obtuse, rounded, or acuminate, the base obtuse, rounded, or nearly cordate, usually unequal, the margins crenate; petioles 1-4 cm long, densely pubescent. Rowers in axillary or tenninal, corymbose or paniculate cymes. Calyx bell-shaped, 2-3 mm long, densely covered with rusty-brown hairs; corolla white or cream, bell-shaped with reflexed lobes, the tube 3-3.5 mm long, the lobes 1-1.5 mm long, oblong to triangular; anthers and style slightly exserted, the filaments hairy at base; style 1, with 4 branches. Fruit globose or depressed-globose, 5-7 mm diam., turning green to light yellow to white, fleshy.
Distribution and Ecology - A common tree of secondary forests and disturbed moist areas. Bordeaux Mountain (A1885, B586), Cinnamon Bay (A1090). Also on Jost van Dyke, St. Croix, St. Thomas, and Tortola; Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and the Lesser Antilles
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Discussion
Common names: mucilage manjack, white manjack.